to the enjoyment and that dragging through is full of delight and beauty but the real sorrow that feels has not yet been touched it is the grief which mr has observed and confided to the easy chair it haunts his happy hours with sad he cannot look from his window but he sees it he cannot the charms of country and life but it seems to mock him it turns his joy to ashes he looks upon the wife of his bosom with anguish as he thinks of it he into his children s eyes pretty they know naught of the impending blow it is a shadow as would have solemnly said with which him at mid day it him at mid night and says to him sleep no more what is it do you ask mr in his most startling manner brethren tis the fell hand of improvement that is it it is that which the soul and peace no man who lives in the neighborhood of the city or in any little settlement community hamlet village or town which is occupied with people doing business in the city but is exposed in his rural retirement in his home to the of improvement there are of new york which are said to be subject to to fever and it is false as every of bay ridge and flushing knows there are others which are alleged to be a prey to and tis a base as every and by the is ready to swear it is notorious and is established upon the very best authority namely that of the inhabitants of the districts themselves that no shores are so as those of the bay of new york strict justice indeed demands � and to nothing so much as strict justice and in these matters are the peaceful people of those shores devoted � strict justice and truth demand that it should not be denied that single exceptional but upon the whole sufficiently well cases of trouble have been known but they were always brought from abroad probably from that yankee land from which most of the woe of new york has proceeded while therefore it is a wanton � and the of all property is invited to the statement � to assert that any portion of the neighborhood of new york or of any other great city let it be philadelphia or st louis boston or is subject to or is otherwise than the true of the continent yet it must be owned with sorrow that every region is with the spirit of improvement and were married yesterday and will devote their honey moon to the quest of a place in which to build their permanent nest they find it at last in the most delightful of they build the pretty cottage they spread out smooth green and plant trees and shrubs and hide themselves in flowers they have made a sweet seclusion in which they sit and smile at the eloquence of who their exile and the charm of streets streets are charming respond and in con x chorus but we will have none of them fond foolish pair for even at that moment the spirit of improvement is out a street across their most lawn and through their most sacred grove their trees and flowers and turf are doomed and their seclusion is to be turned into a dusty highway improvement is the of home there is no remedy to oppose the ruin of the place which you have carefully made which has grown around you in increasing beauty with the growth and development of your family which is associated with all that is happiest in your life and which is in some sort the and expression of yourself is to be as the public benefit and the advantage of those less fortunate than yourself the instinct of protecting the home that you have made is as sentimental selfishness and the law steps forward cuts down your trees up your lawn lays a under your window your home and hands you some dollars for what it calls compensation or demands them for what it improvement i am of opinion therefore says mr and the easy chair the reflection to those intending matrimony and thinking of a country home that there are some serious objections to a residence van the other evening to see van the old question of its moral naturally came up and warmly asserted that it was shameful to bring young children to see a play in which the exquisite skill of threw a upon the vice see she said the earnest tearful interest with which these boys and girls near us hang upon the story the charm to them of the scene and of the acting is indescribable do you suppose they can escape the effect all their sympathy is kindled for the good natured and nothing and when turns him out into the night and the storm they cannot help feeling that it is she not he who has ruined the home and that the drunken vagabond who has just made his the x cover of deception is really the victim of a and when he returns old and and we might hope of that fatal appetite which has worked all the woe it is his old victim the woman whose youth his evil habits ruined and who in consequence of those habits was driven into the power of the von who hands him � the cup that shall be death in as if it were she and not he who had been properly and converted from the fatal error of supposing that is not a good thing no no said indignantly and raising her voice to that degree that the easy chair feared to hear the appalling sh sh of the disturbed neighbors it is a spectacle and the and more fascinating the genius of mr in the representation the more deadly 