St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1886-04-15
NEW YORK LETTER.
For The Caledonian

american opera. Cooking and spell
ing schools have trodden sharp on sci
entific lecture courses. The patient
stOrk has stood his weary winter
Through on his solitary leg. Even
{horresco referens) the crazy quilt had
Its season. This winter there has ap-
beared a woman who believes she has
mission to read the Bible to the
Butterflies of Fashion," and the but
ferfiies go about the streets carrying
ID their dainty hands copies of the
Book of books and hover with their
Bright plumage over the words of Him
# 10 whom butterfly and bee are alike
Hear. For one l believe it is a move
M the right direction. We are con-
stantly giving, praying, working and
planning for the poor,-(they repay us
by striking, stopping our trains, block
ng the streets and hindering the world
generality, and possibly in danger of
forgetting that the rich mans soul is
EOrth an effort. Meeting one particu
Jar butterfly on her way to a reading !
Ventured to express my surprise and
pleasure aud she answered at is quite
lie thing, you know, to be seen in
kuch house." Thinking the butter
ies might like to have one "busy bee"
fOme as "A sort of background, hast
kned to palace near by. On high
heat | discovered two butterflies with
Amiliar faces, one the wife of st.
fbhnsbury's postmaster and the other
FER sister, our own Mrs. Bishop.
Mrs. BOttOme took for ner text the
ane word "Settle." The immediate
surroundings of the word are i'll st.
luke 81 IA. She talked plain, practi-
Id, sound, sanctified common sense.
Ie began by urging people to stop
orrying, settle matters and sleep
bundly. She recalled Il sentence of
Dungeons which had done her great
pod, "God provides no grace for imag
barry troubles" | know people who
eljoy worrying so much that they new
ri stop to think that they are going be-
IS vOnd Gods domains. Gen. Sheridan's
tiying of Gen. Grant "that when great
batters came to him for decision he
ways went into secret session with
mself and settled them" came in for
Acy running comment. Then she told
story of a Quaker lady who kne,o she
as called to go to Africa. She told
be tale in her own meeting hoping the
fethren and sisters in drab would
ielp her. They shook their solemn
Dads and said "they didn't believe
e was called" She went to Bishop
Baylor and he looked from his great
.eight down upon her and asked, |
NjOulG you walk a thousand miles
E b rough a forest ?" She thought she |
build two thousand. Still he would
Lot take her. Finally she heard of a
bmpany in which there were women,
nd she came to New York determined
10 90. But there was no money. She |
laid she had started and she would go. |
hen two men land in this only those |
tho go down to the sea in ships can
ppreciate the great self sacrifice) Of
bred to go as steerage passengers and
BIT this plucky little woman go. All
er thinking about going accomplished
pthing when she really started then
De began her life work.
From that point the speaker urged |
eople to start in the Christian life
hd if already in it to start for high
d plane. She prayed that the women
u America might be "tOned up" and
seems as if those who hear her must
latch higher note. | could not help |
wondering if st. Paul were there if he
Tould not have modified that sentence
bis which is most frequently quoted
hd which possibly may have not been
i inspired. However this may be
IN sure this woman will not "keep
lence." God forbid that she should. |
peaking of women we cannot fail to
enton the name which is in every
bdy's mouth.
Our greatest sensation lately has |
zen furnished by the Morgan cOllec- |
on. | suppose there are people who
i've hOl Stcu lbf Ou0 OhCy plOSOi NO 81 |
nee. 1t is quite the thing to talk of
Omans extravaganza. Magnificent
ub houses occupy corner lots, mill
ms float upward in wreaths of cigar
inoke, costly horses prance through |
e streets and yet all fade from re-
Election when the ''serried front" of
e spring bonnet joke shows itself.
hat joke has found and keeps for its
En the spring of immortal youth. 1t |
rs old when we were young, it will |
young when we are old. All New |
ork. nay all the world knows now
rat there has been one eXtravagant
oman. Though no one chronicles |
he number or cost of her bOnnets, it /
a conceded that to spend for paint
gs 81 DOC, 900 and for etchings $780,
DO within space of two years |
eems like wasteful use of money. |
Nhy, think of a woman born rs this |
oman was-humble, poor, facing a
EOrld which gave her nothing she /
idn't earn, paying more than Il million |
nd half to one dealer in jewels in
he short space of six years, that six
ears really reduced by the term of
actual negotiation to fourteen months :
4 rhink of her paying S250, 900 for flow
rs-for rare and costly plants Think