The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-06-16
THE JULY MAGAZINES.
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and with very entertaining variety of arti-
cles it we'll maintains the reputation it has
won. The contents are as follows
ssPhiladelphia," illustrated, j. T. Headley;
''Jaunts in Japan" illustrated, w. II. Hal
lock; 1.-The Gunpowder PlotAThe Story of a
Fourth Of July, illustrated, Edward Eggles-
ton; "Under the Elms," poem, Miss M. A.
Hopkins; 'Bacl-log Studies, Charles Dudley
Warner; Gree Trade and Protection, Horace
Bushnell; ga Fete-day at Malmaison," Louisa
Bushnell; "Samsons Riddle Solved: The Lion
cup vs. The Lion cub, illustrated, II. w.
Wright; IA Tartar Love Song" poem, r. H.
Stoddard; "a Plea for Chinese Labor, by an
American Housewife, Abby Sage Richardson;
''My Husbands First Love, Julia @. r. Dorr;
''Edson's Mother" Susan Coolidge; Caesar
Rowan" poem, Thomas Dunn English; evil
frid Cumbermede," George Macdonald;
'"Topics of the Time;" ''The Old Cabinet"
"Home and Society" "Culture and Progress
Abroad" Couture and Progress at Home;"
"Etchings-Up the Aisle, illustrated, Geo.
A. Baker
The leading article on philadelphia,
which is profusely illustrated with capital
drawings bya Philadelphia artist, Mr.. Thomas
Moran, should secure for this number of
Scribners an extensive sale in this locality.
The article which is from the pen of j. T.
Headley, is an excellent resume of the char
acteristic features of Philadelphia, and it
does full justice to the good points of the
Quaker City. After this, perhaps, the most
striking article in the number is the solution
of Samsons riddle which is proposed by
Mr.. r. w. Wright. This is curious and in
genious if not convincing, and is we'll worthy
of q perusal Another excellent article is
that on "Free-trade and Protection" by
Horace Bushnell. From Mr.. Headley's paper
on "Philadelphia" we take the following
In all other cities the great question has
been how to give this class cleanly, comfort
able, safe apartments. In Philadelphia it has
been, how to give them pleasant attractive
homes. Home influence is the strongest on
earth in keeping man from dissolute CON-
panionship and the grog-shop, and from
becoming a mere vagrant on the Sabbath
day. Even though he never enters a church,
there is a pulpit in his own house, and
the preacher, the sweet restraining inhu-
ences of home. These insensibly, in time
draw him towards the place of worship,
just as they draw him away from unhal-
lowed places and associations. It is i'm
possible to overestimate the effect of this
home influence on the morals and character
of great city, not to mention the amount of
suffering it prevents and the happiness it
COnIerb Oh Idul1eS. ESPECIALLY 10 Cn6 Au16-
rican mechanic and laborer is this possession
of home of vital importance. Without it
his restless nature is very likely to draw him
into companionships and occupations that
mar or destroy his character. Whether New
York, with its circnmscribed limits and it's
extremely poor population, can ever carry
out this system as thoroughly as Philadel-
phia is doubtful but certainly something
might be done, perhaps on Long Island, if
nbao oil ha
The home feeling seems to rule very
strongly in the erection of all their houses in
Philadelphia 1t is true, on Walnut street
modern palatial residences are going up, and
under the influence of increasing wealth and
q ruinous fashion it may in time rival Fifth
avenue where people do not build homes for
their own comfort, but objects of admira-
tion for other people to gaze at. Palaces
furnish grand sights to spectators, but poor
homes to the inmates. Take Arch street,
where SO many of the solid men of Philadel-
phia live, and as far as you can see are rows
of brick houses, three or four stories high,
plain and neat in style, without any Easements,
and hence without areas and flights of steps.
They are almost flush with the sidewalk, and
sitting so fiat on the ground, present, at first,
singular appearance to one accustomed to
the high steps and iron ratings ia front of
New York houses. The parlors being so close
to the ground and sidewalk, the lower win
dows are protected by solid white shutters,
which contrast singularly with the green
blinds of the upper stories. But there is
something snug, comfortable and home-like
about them that renders them peculiarly
attractive.
A benefcent and admirable regulation.
adopted in 1866, has prevented the opening
OF any new street, court, lane or alley, of less
than twenty. five feet in width. 1t has, more
over compelled all the old courts lanes etc
when widened, to be made twenty feet wide,
no matter what the former width; while every
new dwelling house must have an open space
attached to it, in the rear or at the side, equal
to at least twelve feet square.
From Mr.. Bushnell's excellent article on
Stree Trade and Protection" the whole OF
which we earnestly commend to the attention
OF our readers, we make these extracts:-
What did we discover in our war of 1872,
but that we had nothing to equip the wall
Having no woollen manufacture, we could not
clothe our soldiers; we could not even make q
blanket. We had been free-traders, buying
all such things because we could buy them
cheaper; but we now discovered, how soon,
that We might better have been making
blankets at double the cost for the last fifty
years. The same was true of saltpetre for
gunpowder; OF guns, and cannon, and swords:
and iron and steel out of which to make them
nation that is to be power must have al
least a sufficient supply of iron made at hone
no matter what the cost, to arm itself for war
We began also to make the discovery shortly
that the very Insignificant article of salt
coming In short supply, was nearly dead
necessity-one of the munitions of war-anC
that manufacturing it for ourselves at doubl,
the cost would have been a true advan