Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1889-02-01
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INTERESTING NEWS AND GOSSIP
FROM THE METROPOLIS.
That Terrible Miss Coffin Luxurious Fads
of Wealthy Women To Open the Sa-
looms sunday Facilities of IA Big
Newspape Wizard Edison
From our Regular Correspondent !

few DAVIS apo was hailed with DELIGHT NV fine
fashionable women Of this town. for if gave
them Glance for the first time this winter
to array themselves in their beautiful fms
and promenade the avenue. They have been
watching the weather predictions for two
months and when If was at last announced
that the cold ,yeatbc, was really corniug
they rot out their beautiful fur boas. seal
skins. sables. monkey skins. beavers etc.
Then with the first drop of the thermometer.
they found excuses, for n cun ogcolFee at Mil
lard's u box of bon bons at Huvler's. and
various little calls along the STAINING
ground of fashi on and wealth. If was
most interesting sipht TO take a stroll from
Fourteenth street through Union SQUARE and
Madison park up Fifth avenue. Every wo-
man who had any furs put them ali on md
sailed forth to admire and be admired nv
her own and the opposite sex. Few people
who have not investigated it. realize the ex-
travagant luxury of the Now YoI1, women
of the ''uppcr ten. - Besides all manner of
pleasing things for their adornment. they
now eXpend tremendous amounts of money
for the Identifying of their own sleepins-
chambers and boudoirs. For u long time
these dainty women have used silk entirely
for their underclothing. and they now make
use OF the same material for their sleepinar
chambers. They have silk sheets and pillow
cases with beautiful East Indian blankets
woven entirely of raw silk, and dainty
spreads covered with surah or satin. These
sheets and pillow cases are hem-stitched with
a cross or monogram embroidered in one
corner. They are all of delicate coors and
some of them are embroidered along the edge
or have a bright band of aranu work around
The idea of having sheets and pillow cases
e.,
nary house wife as indeed a strange fad.
Mrs. George Could who has a passion for
violets. has several sets of these silken bed
furnishings, of pale lilac with rows of palma
vioets embroidered all round them. The
Hndoo blanket is of deeper purple and the
violet colored bed-spread is perfumed with
sachets of violet powder. Mrs. Frank Leslie
has her sheets and pillow cases made entire
" of black silk with her monogram and coat
of arms delicately embroidered upOn them in
bright colors What will the luxurious wo-
men of wealth and fashion think of next?
1t was a very amusing thing to notice the
other dav. how the republicans and demo-
Gratis in the New York board of aldermen
took different sides on the question of open
ing the liquor saloons on Sunday. One of
the city fathers took occasion to propose a
change in the present law. which will permit
the liquor saloons to be opened from II
O'Clock noon until midnight on the Sabbath
day. OF course. Tammanv hall and the
county democracy hate each other more
fercely than the republicans hate the demo-
cratic members of the board hit when this
momentous question arose every Tammanv
hall man clasped the hand of every county
democrat and they stood together in broth
erly affection in support of this new resolu-
Go
DEMOCRATS We're too many for them, and the
probability is that before long, we will have
free rum on Sunday as much as on any 9TH
err day Of the week. And this opens up a
very interesting question. Mayor Hewitt,
who went out of office on January 1st, was
known as the ''refOrm mayorn He is ac-
credited with having broken up the majority
of the Sixth avenue dance halls, and resorts
for men and women about town to the great
annoyance of the demi monde These peo-
pie did all in their power to defeat Hewitt at
the last election and now feel perfectly CON
tident that the new mayor Hugh Grant, will
allow high carnival to be again renewed at
the notorious resorts that Mavor Hewitt
closed. If this is so Captain Williams's fam
GUS old 29th precinct viii resume its reputa-
ton for midnight reves and general uncork-
ed breeziness and New Workers in search of
night amusement viii know Just where to
go to find ''the elephant alive again What
ever Mayor Grant may do with this matter,
it is certain that Tom Gould, Jimmy Irving,
the old Hay Market, the Cremorne the Sill
Yer Grill and other noted resorts that have
lapsed into suspended animation are now
rushing forward preparations to open up
again with the old time all night orgies.
An interesting example of what can be
done in big newspaper office when it is ne
cessary to make use of all its facilities was
shown last Saturday night by the New York
WOHd. During the afternoon a cable mes
sage was received from the Paris cores
pondent saving that he had filed 5000 words
of an extract from Max 'Rell's new book
on American manners and customs. The
long special cable had very nearly all arriv-
ed when it was known in the office that the
entire book could be obtained on this sids of
the water. 1t was then seven O'Clock in the
evening and the great Sunday paper of "a
pages was being set up by the compositors
The cable message had already shown that
the book was of exceedingly great interest
and the editor in chief determined To print
the whole book if he couid get hold of if At