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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09
Girls in London Shops.

In some firms the girls, when not serv-
ing, are permitted to adjourn to a comfort
able sitting and reading room, or are al
lowed to sit behind the counters, and, with
respect to food, dainties are often provided
in the form of fish, fowl or pastry, which
the less favored fellows" fail to obtain
The average time for meals are half an
hour, and twenty minutes for dinner and
tea respectively, except throughout the
hottest weather, when the tea time is ex-
tended to thirty minutes, in consideration
of the longer hours consequent on light
evenings. Supper is usually provided i'm
mediately after closing time, and then a
much coveted span of freedom is enjoyed
till II o'clock sharp, or 10 O'Clock one night
a week, for the convenience of playgOers.
As any fellow" who contemplates start
ing business for himself usually chooses
n wife from among the girls of the house,
it will be seen that real trade unionism"
exists among the community, in a peculiar
sense, and the so called rag trade" is thus
perpe'uated by duly qualified ASSISTANTS
Pail Mall Gazette.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09
Game of Books and Authors.

Two of the children were sent out of the
room TO choOse the title of a book. When
this was decided upon they planned how
they should in pantomime act it so that the
rest of us might guess it,
Ned and Mabel were chosen, and after u
few minutes absence Mabel came into the
room, walked slowly to the fireplace, and
was about to seat herself in an easy chair,
when Ned called her, and back she went
into the hall
OF course Called Back" by Hugh Con.
way, was guessed lit once, and the success
full guessers had an opportunity to try
their skill. They soon appeared with a
clock, the hands of which pointed to five
minutes before y. After gaping and rub
bing their eyes and making Us understand
how weary they were, one of them produced
an old coat and the other a torn jacket and
both began TO sew diligently.
Never Too Late to Mend Charles
Reade," shouted Ned, and then, choosing
one of the little girls, they left us. Pres
emily they came running in so carelessly
that they bumped against a sofa and sank
down, rubbing their elbows and wailing in
a most pitiful manner.
This time we were not SO quick, but after
a few minutes thinking some one was for
tunate enough TO guess Much Ado About
Nothing Shakespeare"
Before bedtime came we had tried Put
Yourself IN His Place. Charles Reade;
"Oliver Twist" Dickens, Three Fcath-
ers," Black; Our Mutual Friend,n Dick
ems; Scarlet Letter." Hawthorne; The
Spy" Cooper; The Gagged Lion" Miss
Yonge, and What VIII He Do with Ity'
decentralization Union.
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somewhere near the Sboseham's top story,
that Mrs Thurber talks si1,a>ly, In the low
est Of distinct voices. and where she inter
ests and fascipates you, whether you will
or no Size IL in the piainest Of cloth gowns
and with nothing about TO Indicate longer
stay than one Of twenty four hours, unless
it is little writing desk pear the window,
strewn with the facilities for writing a
note or two.
Apparently she isapdiferent TO surround
ings, as she certainly Is indifferent of all
Setting" or background" and yet pass
ing glance would not give her place
among pretty or beautiful women. Mrs.
Thurber is neither pretty nor beautiful.
But she is attractive. Her voice and eyes
hold YOU, and her magnetic sympathy
completes the spell. But 1t is not these
fascinating qualities which constitute Mrs.
Thurbers real power. 1t is her honesty
and earnest PURPOSE together with a sim
phcity which is impressive. You go to see
woman called music mad" After ten
minutes talk you come away wishing most
devouEy that the world contained more
women just as natural, and that such
madness" were more prevalent. Wash
ington Cor. Springfield Republican
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09

All women out Of their teens are entitled
to be styled Mistress" Miss" is merely
a diminutive, and is properly confined to
young girls, just as Master" is commonly
confined to school boys. In the days of
Pope, Mrs" was the common appellation
of unmarried ladies Sir Walter Scott,
too, speaks of Joanna (unmarried) as Mrs
Joanna Baillie There are nowadays
plenty Of spinsters-and young spinsters,
too-who insist on being addressed as
Mrs" and at one or two places in Sus-
sex, curiously enough, the married lady is
Miss" and the unmarried lndy receives
the title of Mrs" The same custom is
found in many parts Of Ireland. The form
Mrs" was at one time applied indiffer-
emily to persons at all ages.
Among servants generally the cook,
whether married or single, expects to be
called Mrs" SO do housekeepers, though
unmarried. In point of fact, Mrs. or Mis-
tress is a title Of respect that the plain
Miss" is devoid of. Why actresses who
are married women should seek to disguise
that fact by allowing the misleading pre-
fix of Miss to be attached to their names
is a mystery that admits of no ineligible
eXplanation.-The Lady.
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WOMAN AND HOME.
THE PRETTY GIRL, HANDSOME WO-
MAN AND BEAUTIFUL MATRON.
Game of Books and Authors-A Daby's
Memory-A Glance at Mrs. Thurbcr.
Beautiful Women in England
About boiling Food.

The notion still held by certain shallow
women that maturity is ugliuess is one of
the most incomprehensible pieces of non
sense of the time. Here il a fair muudlcr in
one Of our contemporaries complimenting
Nine Albani on having overcome her ma
tronliness and on the renewed girlishneSs
of her appearance. From this | should
judge that women who live on public eN-
hibition faar nothing SO much s3 develop
ment. Ii they can only stay all their lives
in d lisping and glutnous sweetness and
not grow, they are satisfied. To got on in
appearance, or in character, or il strength
is a calamity. In this extraordinary view
of things a green coddling is better than
ripe pippin. Women who exhibit them
selves nave only one standard of merit
and that is youth.
Poor creatures, they do not know that the
pretty girl ought to become the handsome
woman and never reaches her full splen-
dor until she is matron. They cannot
comprehend the fact that fixed beauty has
no existence except in death, and even then
only when the crlhalmer has pat in his
work The law of beauty in life is the law
OF development and attainment. and the
beauty of Il matron ana the beauty of
miss differ from each other as ono star diff
fers from another in glorT-and, curiously
enough, the older the star the more beauti-
ftl it becomes.
Women who think of nothing but how
they shall stay young are women Of char
acterless minds. All things considered,
the greatest woman is She who cnn grow
old gloriously, and defy time with some
thing better than enamel. But your wo-
plan who is professionally on exhibition
lbs got to bring to the market what the
public most desires. And it is patent fact
that the mob would rather look at the pas
tryness of youth than at the perfection of
personality 1t is this popular instinct that
makes exhibiting women starve them
solves, ename! themselves, prison them
selves, restrict their functions, suppress
their minds and cruelty their bodies.-New
York Truth 6 l.F
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09

"a cry of delight escapes you. All you
see u.s. a perfect mat at your feet. Our
pink and white blossoms are half hidden
by delicate MOSES and our own green and
russell leaves. We must own that our
leaves are not pretty. They Were made for
use-to protect our tender buds through
the winter, to breathe for us the strong air
of early spring. that we may be ready to
smile when the warm sun and gentle rains
touch us. Fill your baskets, then, before
we are fnint and weary, hurry home with
u.s. place us in pans of water in cool,
damp cellar, where we drink and drink I'M
til we are full of moisture and we'll equip
ped for the journey before us Then fash
ion us into bouquets, fiat on one side, and
place in n strong pasteboard box with
sprays of damp moss, do us up and send by
mail or express 20 some city home Could
you, when the box is opened hear the ex-
Carnations of delight as we fiji the air with
our sweetness, You would understand that
we came to gladden. the hearts of all who
see us, to make new friends and cheer our
old Onesn
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09
The Truth About the Lark.

An English writer proposes to explode
another of our dear boliefs. He says the
proverb up with the lark is not at all
fair to several other birds who are early
rscrs:
THE credit of being first up is said to be
long to the greentinch, which sings as early
rs half past on "A summer morning An
hour later the bluckcap tunes up and the
quail folloES him within some thirty min
utes. By 4, when Sol himself has been up
for considerable time, the black bird
makes the woods resound with his melody.
Half an hour later the thrush is audible
and then at short intervals the voices of
the robin and the wren are heard In the
land, the house sparrow and the tomtit
coming last. 1t appears that the lark does
not rise until after the chaflinch, linnet
and number of other hedgerow folk have
been merrily piping for a good while"
Though this be so, remarks Wide Awake.
the lark still is good eXcmplification of a
proverb-the one which runs, Get your
name up, then you can lie abed until noon p"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09
About Boiling Food.

There il in boiling and frying foods a
very simple problem in physics, which
most people ignore, viz, that of latent
heat. When piece of meat, a vegetable,
or other article of food which Is at the or
binary temperature, 70 degs. to rs dogs. f.,
is placed in boiling water or fat, the tenn
perature of the solution is lowered proper
t!onately to the mass and temperature of
the article introduced; and it is not until
the mass has absorbed more heat from the
fire that the solution again comes TO the
boil
If care is taken, either by introducing
the food in small quantities at a time into
the boiling solution, so that very little
lowering Of the temperature takes place,
or by preliminary heating of the food be-
fore adding 1t TO the solution, and Ia every
case allowing the solution to boil before
introducing any fresh material, the sod
denness of improperly boiled or fried foods
will be avoided. Science.
WELLS HAIR BALsASI.
II gray, gradually restores color elegant
tonic dressing. 50c., Sl0O, Druggists or & 90
size prepaid by Express for Sl.Oo. 4. S. Wella,
Jersey City.
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YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
AMUSING ANo INSTRUCTIVE ENTER
TAlNMsNT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
Story of Trailing Arbutus as Told by The
Puritan Flower in American Garden,
A Small Girl and the New Game
She Played.

Listen to the story of the arbutus, If you
would know what 1t is, whore it grows,
how and why it finds its way to distant
hearts and homes; I'VE belong to grand
old family called erioaca. Botanists call us
Epigna repens, because we trail upon the
earth but we like best to be called by the
prottier name of trailing arbutus. Among
our many cousins we number che laures,
rhododendrons and szaleas, which flourish
on your lawns and in your greenhouses.
We are kin to the delicate pyrola the Prin-
cess Pine and the good old fashioned win
tergreen; but you would not dream that
we could also claim the ghostly Indian
pipe, that meier do we'll, that appears in
juno and steals living for month or two
Let me take yor~where natures heart beats
strong among the hills place you on
grassy knoll sloping gently toward the
west; here is a shallow ravine; low shrubs
are abundant, as well as the ground pine.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09
Matthew O'Connors's Estate.

We, the subscribers. having been appointed
by the Honorable the Probate Court for the
District Of Chttenden, Commissioners to re-
ceive, examine and adjust the claims and de-
nands OF all persons against the estate OF Mat
thew O'Connprs late Of So. Burlington, in said
district deceased, and also all claims and de-
mands exhibited in Offset thereto; and SIX
months from the day OF the date hereof, being
allowed by said Court for that purpose, we do
therefore hereby give notice that we will at
tend to the business of our appointment. at
the residence Of 6. b. Arnold, in So. Buriing-
ton, In said district, on the twenty-first days
of May and October next, at 10 o'clock a. M,
on each of said days.
Dated this . 81 day of April, 1890.
6. b ARNOLD, -.-.--
AZ Nh
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09
Our ScRpe Cont.

If there comes tremping down the stair,
vigorous clog dance overhead,
Or fearful racket anywhere
That's Ned
If you hear bowling down the street,
And to the window run in dread
It's not a mob in full retreat
But Ned,
II you hnd litter where Of late
perfect order reigned instead
Don't sit down and bemoau your fate
Catch Ned.
And if there's anything gone wrong,
Don't vainly ponder in ycur bed
To end the author 'twon't take long
lis Ned,
Golden Days.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09

But it is neither the concert nor the recep-
ton, but Mrs. Thurber herself who is most
interesting. Not Mrs. Thurber sitting tan
tAlizingly back in the box at her concert,
nor the same woman later, in her black
velyea gown, receiving the couple of hun
dred quests. But it Is in her own rooms,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09
His Likes and Dialllses.

He said he liked her fnce-so sweet
Her eyes with brows that almost meet
He liked her forehead white and square,
lie liked her long aud waving hair,
lie liked her cheeks With tints Of rose,
But he heartily dlsllked her noes.
Washington Post
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09
Cured by Cuticura

cannot say enough in praise of the CUrt
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Norway Ne
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doctor, thisoorn euro you sold mo has
failed TO remove. the,corn"
Then, as a East resort, think You had
better let me remove the toe. n-Yankee
Blade. '+.
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Father (sternlyl-Joe, do you want me to
put you in the dark olosetl
Little Joe (equivocally) what ma kes
you ask me such questions Lowell Citizen.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09

Ted--Why don't you take that girl of yours
out TO see something's
Ned--Because she wants me TO buy her
everything she sees.--New York Evening
Sim
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Fever Sore Eight Years.

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No Flies on Her

No Flies on Her.
"Sweet maid, said he,
81 ask of thee
To fly, to fly, to fly with me-"
Young feiler," said she,
"Now don't you be
Too fly, too fly, too fly with me-"
Exchange
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He Repudiated 1t,

,IamesWhat did Frankly say owed himi
Charles--An apology
James 0anguidly)-Well, tell him to call
On dad for settlement. Yankee Blade.
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tIREETING:
At Probate Court holden At BURLINGTON.
within and Tor the district OF Cnitterden, on
the 10Th day of April l,90, an Instruments
purporting 10 be the last viii and testament OF
Ellen McGlynn, late u Underhill. in said
district dee eased, WAS presented To the Court
aforesaid Tor PROBATE. And il il ordeppd ny
said Court that the 9th day Of May, $50,
at the Probate Court rooms III ,aid Burlington.
be assigned tor proving said instrument {;
and that notice thereof he given 70 al persons
concerned, by publishing tli, nrJey tLrco
weeks successfully in the Darlington FREQ
Press, a newspaper 7"iT ted at said BGI ington
previous T. tho time appointed.
Therefore. you are hereby notified TO appear
before said Court. at the time and place ator. .
said. and contest the probate a. $40 W.n Il
you have cause.
Given under my hand nj Burlington, in sail
district, this 10Th day % April, S9o.
&, Wiw JENNIE STACY. E5c.s.cr.
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Muggins-Did the man you called liar
have on a stand up collnrl
Cobb picking himself up)-No; he had on
u knock down choler. Van Dorn's.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-09
Ambiguous.

"Well, popped the question to Polly last
night"
What did she dor
''She sat on me Life
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Cuticura ResoIvent

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Nathan Benham's Estate.

STATE OF VERMONT. J. To all persons cor
DGsTR1Cr OF CHt1TENDIN cerned IN Ile estate
OF Nathan Benhaiu, lato Of Jericho, III
said district decec scd,
CJIBET mo:
Al a Probate Court. holden at Burlington,
within and for the District OF Chitterde1. OF,
the I'D day Of April, 1870. al instrument Iur-
porting 10 be- the last viii and testament Of
Nathan Bcnham, late OF Jericho. in said lis.
triot deceased, was presented to tue Court ,fore-
said, for probate. And is ordered by said Court
that the Eth day Of May, so. at the Probate
Court Rooms in said Burlington. be assigned
for approving said instrument; and that notice
thereof be given to all persons concerned. br
publishing this order three weeks successfully
in the Burlington Free Press a newspaper
printed at said Burlington, previous to tho
time appointed,
Therefore you are hereby notified to appear
before said Court. at the time and place at1re-
said, and contest tho probate Of said will, f
you have cause.
lrfven under my hand at Burlington, in said
district, this I'D day of April. 1899.
43,w3w JENNIE STACY. Register.
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Square Meals are Something.
tbs hard hut sometimes poets must
In countries young and savage,
Thank heaven, while they're being cuss'd,
If they got beet and cabbage.
-Pittsburg Bulletin.
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Ellen McGIynn's Estate.


STATE OF VERMONT, To all pers OnS
DISTRICT OF CHITIENDUN. concern FL in tho
estate of Ellen McGlyuu, late or Undcrhil,
in said district, deCeaacl.
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CLOTHING
ever held in Burlington.
at the American Clothing Co.'S.
SO Church ST. Corner Cherrv,
One Of the most prominent Clothing manu-
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in the hands Of the American Clothing Com
pany. who have agreed to turn the same into
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The stock Is connie etc and comprises the
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Youths Nubby Spring Suits $40 worth sp.
1000 pairs Mems Striped Pants at Sl.l5 worth
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