Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-03-29
thought you were good deal of an ass, but
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father he ought to know better than Judge q
man by his loohe. New York Sun.
" THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD.
Some Peculiarlties OF the Fashionable
iFomale Vocabulary.

iFemale Vocabulary.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.I
In her speech the fashionable young lady
has her vocabulary as she has her code. Lat
terly she has permitted herself the use Of Q
good many EngIish expressions. She says
afancy' always for 'suppose," +" and she never
says 'guess'; she says "chemist" for ''drug-
gias,' "stop attome" for .stay & at home" and
ing bath.n eFunction" with her means any
sort of social gathering, and very gay ball
becomes q trout" "Smart" expresses q
considerable degree of excellence which she
applies equally to q wedding or a bonnet;
Gan awfully fetching frock of gown" is very
English for an especially pretty dress. She
likes the word "clever," too.
s'That's clever bit of canvas" If you ask
her does she bowl, she replies, modestly:
eyes, but I'm not at all clever with the
balls" Some phrases she leans rather heav-
lily upon, notably s'such q blow" when Q
rain postpones a visit OF a friend dies, and
t'such q pleasure" alike to hear Patti and
spend tiresome evening at the house of
some acquaintance. She has, too, an index
respect. There are no more "stores" for
her; they have become ''shops"; 'tservants"
also have ceased to exist as such; they are
''men servants" and "maids," although she
permits heraelf to designate as laundress,
houssmaid or butler; 'tgentleman" she
avoids; ga man know, she says, referring
to q male acquaintance; or, "there were lots
fdss to some sister belle who missed tine
opera; Call right" she never says, making
every we'll" do much better service; nor
does she add s'party" to dinner, speaking of
such an entertainment; her home no longer
has s'parlor," pure and simple, but "blue
room" a sfred room," a Japanese room,"
or possibly an feast parlor."
Sprins.FIowerine Bulbs.
From the Garden and Forestl
After the long Northern winter, any evi-
dence Of renewed life is welcome, and early
flowers could not fail to give delight for the
cheerful promise which they bring, if for no
other reason. But apart from this appeal to
the Imagination, and from the fact that
they have few rivals, spring flowers in them
selves are among the most beautiful which
the year has to offer; SO that every one who
has any appreciation of grace and dslicaoy in
form and color takes especial satisfaction in
spring garden. The testimony is universal
that one who plants spring garden provides
himself and his friends with store of un-
Even in our wild February whether the
fragile snowdrop will often pierce the frozen
soil and open in sunny exposure, and, If a
can be had in constant succession through
all the spring months, until the summer
irises appear. Most of the earlier and more
delicate ones are ont of place in masses or
formal beds. Suowdrops, for example, can
be snugly placed under the shelter of wall
or a boulder in the rock garden. Tall
squills like s. companulata are at home in
when they bloom. Dafodils will grace the
borders of a woodland path. Yellow crocuses
are beautiful on the turf, as they open just
as the grass is warming into tender green.
Gay garden tulips and hyacinths are quite
too civilized for hooks in the wild garden,
but some of the species of tulips, especially
those of recent introduction, are not mis-
placed on the border of Strawberries, or In
pockets of the rock garden. There is no
| spot in wood or meadow. by the brookside
| or bywsy, among the rocks, or in a trim en-
| closure, where some Of these flowers cannot
be placed to advantage.
| None of these spring Towering bulbs are
almost numberless species and varieties of
the narcissus. The single daffcdil opens
early in April, with the bloodroos, and fo1
| six weeks some member of the family will
be in bloom. Latest of all, and hard after
| the beautiful N. bifords, comes the poets
| narcissus, the hardest and most useful of all.
| No flower is more effective in the border, in
the rock garden, or as an edaing to the
shrubbery. It can be naturalized even in q
| bayfield,, and it never appears more beautiful
than when shining among the grass. The
foliage should remain till the bulbs have
ripened we'll, and this is true of all other
bulbs; but long before the grass is fit for
the scythe the tops will have died down out
of the way. and the bulbs will have multi.
piled for fresh flowers another spring. The
poets narcissus is not particular about soil
or exposure, but it will multiply more rapid.
| ly in deep, rich soil, and gratefully repay
kind treatment. Many varieties have been
produced BY crossing and selection, which
are interesting to those who take pleasure in
noting minor distinctions among flowers, but
| for general effect none of them are superior
| to the original type, which can be bought fol
q tride, and a few of them planted every
year in vacant corners will soon furnish an
abundant supply. Like most species of mar
cissus, they do better.Fhsn planted early,
and then, if the sos suitable, they only
need to be protected from the ravages of the
lawn-mower to keep on spreading and flower.
ing year after year. No one ever had toe
many poets nsrcissus or other spring bulbs
| of that adaptable kind which will brighten
up out-of-the-way hooks in unkept part Of
the garden, and no one ever enjoyed such
flowers in full measure until he has seer
them scattered along the wayside Of
the grass, or grouped naturally in a wood
border.