Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1882 — Sad Story of Culture. [ARTICLE]

Sad Story of Culture.

Boston Saturday Gazette. A somewhat absent-minded Boston lady, who occupies a highly favored position in the literary world, gives an amusing account of her latest “brown study” and its effect ou the London public. She was dressing to go out with a blind friend one day last summer, and having completed her toilet, joined him at the door, when they proceeded leisurely through some or the most fashionably-frequented streets to their destination. She at last observed the people looking curiously at her.and uot being given to vanity, wondered why, but still walked on, chatting contentedly wlthjher friend. Suddenly a peculiar glance from a passer-by caused her to put her hand to her bead, when, lo! her bonnet wasnotthpre! Of course it had dropped off, and rushing into a shop site wrote out a minute description,with reward offered,of the missing article, and had it placed in the windows of the shops along the route they had come, then seeking the seclusion of a cab hastened borne as Boon as might be. On entering her room the first object that greeted her now fully awakened vision was the bonnet, that had never been taken out walking at ail, reposing quietly on the bed.