Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-01-07
Our Boston Letter.

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street through the .throng of feminin,
shoppers during the weeks that vehs
irecently passed one would suppose tina
| the hopeless minority of males in this cit,
would be so completely surfeited will
| slippers, shaving outfits, and useless ar
Iticles of more or less ugliness, that tota
Ioblivion would be their portion thi
time next year; at least. the though
arises that oblivion or utter extinction
is what they should crave.
| These shopping throngs are interest
| ing in their way; there is the motherly
old soul from '.daown Cape Cod way
who wants to buy ''some fixin's for The
men folks" Here you have the elderly
lcollege-town spinster, with distinctly
marked crows'-feet discernible in hen
lparcnment-like pbysiognomy, suggest
ing oceans of sealding tea and number
less buns. The poor soul is looking fol-
| the right shade of worsted to be worked
into an impossible motto for the room
of some callow freshman. Here again
is the naughty denizen of the Back-Bay,
with unlimited pin-money; she does not
know whether as holiday gift, she
should purchase warm rug for the
equity legs OF her lord or spend the
money on herself. Let us follow that elc-
gantly dressed young woman into Jor-
dan & Marsh's; see how deity she slips
that parcel of lace under herseal Jacket,
thinking she is unseen; but the suave
clerk has noticed the act, and smiles
broadly as he charges papa for the
populations of the fair kleptomaniac.
And so it all goes.
The Boston Merchants association
gave its fifth annual banquet at the Ven
dome last Wednesday. at which was a
distinguished delegation of invited
guests from the Nation s capital, among
whom were Senators Evarts, Allison,
Edmunds and Frye. The topics for
discussion were silver. the bankruptcy
laws and the tariff Speeches were
made bs Gov. Robinson, Senator Ed
mund>, Mayor O'Brieu Of Boston, Sen
ator Evarts, Collector Saton stall, Sens.
tors Allison aud FRYE and Congressman
Tucker of Virginia,
The Boston Record. jealously alive to
the interests Of its city, comments ON
of Senator Evarts last evening, in which
he drowned the silver question IN a food
of meaningless words. was not compli-
mentary 10 the merchants of Boston.
Ii the sen ator bad no views to present,
it would have been much mere satisfac-
tory, as well as more courteous, for him
to say so plainly But his purpose seems
to have been not to conceal ideas by the
use of language, but to hide the entire
absence OF ideas under n smotheripg
blanket of tedious rhetoric"
The total amount of the Parker house
bill against the city Of Boston is 49,
507 65. Objection was made TO the
reading Of the bills in the board of al
dermen, yesterday, on the ground that
they might be used as political capital
against certain city officers whose
names figure. prominently On the bills
rs debtors for Uncomfortable quantities
OF wine On December l5tL Alderman.
eject p j. Mcguire sat down to dinner
with Councilman Cassidy and arose
from the table having demolished only
Sl4.S0 worth of food and drink. Bos-
tons city officers are good juuketers.
but their contemporaries are like their
New England progenitors, "keerful,
i. g., stingy. The less favored tax-pay
ers haven't yet finished bowling over
the city councils trip to indianapolis,
to attend Vice President Hendricks flu.
neral.
Youpg's hotel was the scene of .
rather serious banquet given by the
Amherst club in Boston; serious, be-
cause q discussion took place on the
elective system as pursued at Harvard
to-day as against the system in vogue
at Amherst. Harvard was duly repre-
scented by Prof Palmer, the author Of
he article on the elective system pub
lished in a late number of the Andovel
Review President Seelye of Amhers
gave few cogent reasons why an oper
field of choice should not be given &c
men in their freshman year. BY tn,
plan now pursued al Harvard the Who'll,
course is optional except nine-sixtteuth:
of the work of the freshman year; thus
the responsibility of choice il too grea
10 h. east upon the Young student.
have another story TO add to the al
ready large stock. alusion to which va
fsYiGe IN ulv last: This tine it is th'
society gifl from Now York (ot course
who 4sked 4 young Harvard mao VIVA
be did 10 amuse himself, what relaxa
I
iinn from work he sought, what he read
etc.. to which the Harvard man re
sponded modestly. II read great dea
Of Kant" The young woman though
he had nj last found one author wit
whom she was familiar and artlessly in
quired. BY the author Of 'Dsn't.
suppose p Now, this sort OF thin
"goes" here with gusto.
: 1t Is surprising how ones idea of fam
) becomes modified: Five years ago,
rather Junoesque person of uncertain
/; age and altogether dowdy appearance
presented herself to Mr.. Adam Fore
paugh as candidate for his beaut
/ prize Of $4,000 We all remember tn
triumphal pageant headed by Mis-
, Louise Montague as Lalla Rookh ridin
, on an elephant; that was fame. TC
! night Miss Montague is essaying th
!, somewhat arduous coptortions. not {
the circus-rider bS Of Yum Yum i
the Mikado. Not content with bein
the cause of Col McCaull's pulling tn
nose of Herr Conried in the New Yor