Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-09-03
THE FLEETINe SHOW.

Some of Its Facts and Fancies.
Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l
THE HATHAWAY COTTAGE.
The quaint and picturesque cottage at
Shottery, near Stratford, now more than
three hundred years old and once the home
of Richard Hathaway and his daughter
Anne, has recently passed into the hands
of the Shakespeare House trustees.
The purchase price was three thousand
pounds, sum absorbing nearly the whole
of the society's reserve fund, but as other
parties in England and America were nego-
tiating for it the purchaee was imperative.
Not only the cottage, but it's time-worn his
toric~ furniture, is now the property of the
society. The interior of the house, re-
modelled many years ago for the accommo-
dation of two families, will be restored to
Its original condition, and again opened to
visitors. It's custodian will still be Mrs.
Mary Baker, a direct descendant of Richard
Hathaway, who for more than seventy
years has lived in the cottage and for fifty
years has been proud to lead pilgrims from
all climes through the low -ceiled rooms
IuhU, u6AJ " tuOSo VI Guo uouC ob otIdGAoIo-
on-Avon, seem fullest of memories of the
youthful life of him who was the soul of
his age, and is the poet of all time.
"Following the footpath way through
the kitchen gardens of Stratford from the
town to the village of Shottery," says Mr..
J. L. Williams in his magnificent work,
''The Home and Haunts of Shakespeare"
zone finds the cottage set in the midst of
a genuine old English garden. with its
prim beds set with shrubs as well as flow
ers. The old oaken timbers which form
the framework of the walls are arranged
in a curious variety of angles and geomet-
rical patterns, whose design it would be
hard to trace to any clear purpose. The
intervening brickwork is covered in places
by coating of plaster laid on at different
times, and so assuming different tints of
grey-white and creamy yellow, according
to it's age A group of sunfowers finds
fitting background in the red brick at a
spot where the plaster work has fallen off.
We pass under the low, vine covered door
way and are ushered into an apartment
that takes us back three centuries at sin
gle step. Here are the wainscoted walls;
here is the low ceiling, ribbed with its
heavy oaken timbers; here are the swing
ing easement windows with their lead
sashes and tiny panes Of glass; and what
seems most old fashioned of all, the flag
stone floor worn by the feet of many
generations"
The carved oaken wsinscot of the
kitchen is missing in places, and the oak
seat under the window, shown in the
engraving called 1.-THE courtship of
Shakespeare" has entirely disappeared.
The old kitchen settle is still preserved;
there is valuable dresser, linen chests,
an ancient Bible, and various other inter
estipg relics of the Hathaway occupation,
besides the famous old bedstead, "My
second best bedstead with the hangings,"
mentioned in Shakespe ares will as a
special gift to his wife. These articles
were the inheritance of Mrs. Baker, whose
father, when he sold the house more than
fifty years ago, for about one-tenth of the
present price, retained its furniture and
the right to occupy that half of the house
which contained the original kitchen. 1t
is from her vivid recollections of the con-
dition of the house in her childhood that
the restorations will be made, and she,
with her son as assistant custodian will
spend the remainder of her days under the
quaintest of English roofs in that beauti-
tul, flower imbedded cottage, which is one
of the shrines to which throng the wor-
shippers of the Sovereign Poet, "This
Shakespeare of ours"
THE AUTUMNAL SCHEME OF COLOR.
It is prophesied that the coming season
| will be as rich and brilliant in the colors
| of its fashionable fabrics as in the hues
with which Nature adorns herself for her
great autumna1 festival. Softly glowing
tints of the dahlia, red bronze of the oak,
scarlet of the cardinal flower, yellow of the
golden-rod, and green of the moss, are all
reproduced in infinite variety Of shading,
and with them the neutral russets and UNI
bers and grays, of leaves, aad tree trunks,
and lichens.
Green, in all its tones, will be decidedly
in vogue, especially those refined tints
which shade upon blue, bronze, sage, or
gray. A few rich shades of royal purple
are shown for winter. Navy blues of course
| will hold their own, and electric and gray
ish blues will be taken in favor. Browns
range from a blackish tint called egypt"
| to golden-tan known as 'champagne." A
new dark red has been named by the French
manufacturers Chicago" in honor of the
City of the Great Show. 1t is of warmly
| rich winter tint between cardinal and seal
brown.
Here is a short vocabulary of millinery
French, as it might be called, which may
be eerviceable to those who would study
Fashions autumnal color-scheme. Argent
is silver-gray; Azalee, the pink of the aza-
lia; Aubepine, hawthorne pink: Cerisette,
cherry pink; CASTLE, Spanish yellow; Co.
quelicot, a bright brick red; Caribe, dark
tan; Diavolo bright cinnamon; Eminence,
deep purple-red; Frautigan, pale wine
Grenst, dark wine; Msrdore, reddish
brown; Pygmalion, brownish yellow; Pi
vonie, beet red; Paradise, bird of Paradise
yellow; Roi, light crimson, and Platime
stone gray.
As for the fabrics, the world is laid un
der contribution. We have Shetland tweed
Alpine cheviot, Persian cashmere, Englist
vivogne, Hindoo cloth, Scotch heather
cloth, Arabian cameps hair, and from in
genious, artistic France all manner O.
beautiful and fanciful weavings Bes
of all, however, we have American
wooden dress goods of surprising variet,
and beauty. 1t is stated that tn,
houses which deal only in fine, trustworth,
goods, are now relying upon American
their trade. These goods, they assert, ar
, equal in design and color and superior il
| quality to European goods sold two year
, ago at the same price. This happy stat
Of affairs, 30 creditable to American manu-
, facturers, and so suggestive of the pros
perity of American Industries, has bee
brought about since the passage of the Nc
Kinley tariff bill, and has astonished eve
the most confident believers in the ulti
9 mate success of American dress goods.
? wEEDY.
? The practical philanthropist who woul
: do good service to his fellow men, wome
3 and children included, not for this yes
r alone, but for next year also, has befo,
him, literally, fields of usefulness, whic
: many who are sighing for an opportunit
T to do noble deeds never think of enterinI
j 1t would not be difficult to enter the,
n since 80 many are unfenced, and for b
benevolent work there blessed should /
be in his basket and in his store, especial
s if his store was located in the immediat
/ vicinity of the field
r Since there is apparently m law con
a pelling the owner or tenant of a city Il
to keep it free from noxious weeds, for b
J own and the public good, it is evidentl
d the duty Of philanthropist to right IL