Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-12-10
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dinner,in determinedly literary frame
of mind After he had asked her if she
didn't think Schilter's 1.-The Bells
very pretty little thing. aud remarked
that Madame Greville edits The Nou-
ceita Rsuue des Moadcs. snd had as
serted that Frank Stockton new poem
is exquisite, and Mr.. Fiske's essay on
Buddhism is quite esoteric. he asked:
Have you read Miss CrsddDek's Hast
story 2" He seemed puzzled st the
young lady's polite perturbation Of
manner 1t is said that he returned TO
New York rejected young man. She
could never screw her courage up
to accepting a New Yorker who talked
about "MiSs Craddock Yes, yes,
that's it; there must be the ''counter-ir-
ritant" or Boston would often remain
conspicuously unvindicated rs she would
in the above ease; but it strikes me that
there is too much talk about Young
''ladies" and '.gentlemen" in tae "a ;
sage Word Performers are loudly PR.
testing the use Of the lady" aud .gen.
lemann it is, they say, too suggestive
OF the person who wears bangs, in short
OliyerWendell Holmes creation. .srhe
Landlady's Daughter. there il is again.
landladyi Woman in place OF lady.
young woman in place of young lady.
To return; The groiesque exsggera n
of a New Workers. mistakes makes the
spirit of the article more ludicrously
spiteful than the occasion warrants; in
addition, an ill-natured person might be
lead to remark that when New Yorker
seeks wife, he takes "a fast express nihe
opposite direction from Boston, unless.
indeed, he is one If that class of New
Workers who are afraid To assert their
rights after season at Bah Hahbah''
spent in the SO iety of that well-known
persona Boston husband-seeker Wit
ness, also. the following f,om lie society
column of the Boston Globe: .'NewYork
ladies are introducing singing by prom
nent professionals AZ their o. clock
leas, and the innovation is a great sue.
cess, and worthy Of being followed even
in Boston, where conversation is not
quite perhaps 50 rapid aud senseless,
but which would b. brIgh,eu,d b, such
/ an addition.' Ludlcrnus as the whole
Of it rs. | assure you that these liipgs
are not published ia - spirit OF fua. bul
rather because the Boston press knos
aud feels just what eser} body kuau.
and feels-that the uomerjtel ~, is
for culture which Boston has enia Is
for 50 long. is on the wane sud $, ,bes
have tried MT 10 lose il entirely bg ie-
rncions stabs Al New York
A. the theatres Tue reigniag SIT
tion~ have been Mss Anderson. NJ
Janiscb Mil4 Aimee. aud Savini M
Noendorff R8tcharmer' ii tht
Bijou has izzlrd Iamenti,; on acaoaat
OF that fact and also b, reason Of S
opening of the Hollis ST theatre, price
at the Bijnu have been reduced ~ 81 %
for the best seats. Comic opera swing.
merrily along at the Holt, $, theptr
and one is reminded IF nothing 50 muel
as an evening reception when he enter
the beautiful little parlor 10 the righr
OF the auditorium; every evening be
fore the Overture a plano recital IS giyel
in this cosy little drawing room whiel
is crowded with music-loeers
Parson Downs, the great Boston sen
sation- maker. has been locked out If Is
Bowdoin Square Baptist church, auC
now holds forth in a half-m nalia
neutrality-suspicious. ST, lie to morbid egnwt
Of curiosity-seekers in Mechanics hall
If he is a failure as a clergyman. moth
ing succeeds like failure l.
| Cambridge, December 4. 1885.