The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1875-02-20
SENSIBLE BOSTON

the WOrlQ JOE pIcty O@uOcu 'A' - rr
= bend that | should have to hang my
! self from sheer ennui the very first
: Sunday spent here. ! remembered
sabbath some years ago at 5EdlnaDnrg'
and shuddered. The circumstances
r were about the same: A large city q
r which / had no knowledge, horrible
weather, no friends, every thing around
Theoretically shut up, the streets deser'
tied, and nothing but the tolling OF bells
to be heard. Such was the picture OF
! Boston | drew in my Imagination; but
i was greatly mistaken They seem to
! be more sensible here than in New
1 York, and incomparably more so than
in any part of the old country. had
resolved to remain in bed till noon, but
sleep was out of the question, for live
|ly piano tunes resounded all around me
! at the hotel, almost from, dawn. The
shops were closed, of course, and a
great many people went to church;
vet the weather Notwithstanding, at
no time during the day did the prlncl'
pal street look deserted. In the after
noon fremont street-which by the by
| is, above Park street, quite a diminu-
tive Piccadilly, was all alive with
sleighs. | was shown even such grave
Sabbatarians as c!ergymen and judges
going out for Il drive. Walking being
out of the question on account OF the
murderously slippery condition OF the
sidewalks, no cid of ladies' lined both
sides of the streets waiting for cars,
and offering very gay spectacle. AT
one OF the stations OF the horsc-car
line, opposite Park Street Church, al
coniectioner's shop was crowded with
representatives of the fair sex sucking
candies, and armed with their prayer
books. Thus practically combining
sweetness with devotion, they present
ed Il living protest against more rigid
and ascetic church denominations than
those of New England
In the evening. a concert being adj
verlised Ia take place NJ the large Bos-
ton Theatre, went there and could
not help indulgmg mentally III some
strong language towards the Rev. Mr.
Talmlgc and those who, like McSsrs
Buucicault and Waliack, sided with
him III recently aepr.vlug ;kc iabp:ing
at New YORK of al! enter
talnncnt on sunday. Nj. Lp;hlan's
Sunday CONCERTS here do hot even bear
the name OF sacred" \ couple Of
hymns produced by some Californian
jubilee vocalisis were included III the
but with them an ARA from
Trdriata Mattc!'s Non reJ', a Moorish
scrcnadc and number OF other essen.
TALLY worldly pieces were produced.
The house was crowded; the orchestra
and the singing very fair, and every
body seemed 10 derive much more ben
Eft from TINS entertainment than the,
could ever have done from any number
If dull sccond-ratc sermons. The ar
rument that the great bulk of the re- F.,
spectacle middle classes protest against ,
sunday theatrical performances by new s
IT attending them, seems, in the case i
Of Boston, to be utterly unsupported,
or the most expensive parts of the |
iousc were the most crowded, ladies {
)cng by far more numerous than gen.
lcman, while the noisy Bowcry urchin, i
hat mighty pillar of Sunday perform Il
'hces in New York, slonc only by his
absence on this occasion.
The Boston ladies'! How shall speak a
If them without running the risk of a
alling into the rudest inclvilityy They v
ook lady-like enough, and some have $
intelligent faces; but have b
lot yet seen here handsome or a o
ACKNOWLEDGMENT woman And then, S
Tod bless them, what a peculiar and v
lngraceful way they have of tucking b
Up their petticoats in the street, and S
What substantial feet they show! The L
more ! see of America, the more firmly II
begin to believe that every pretty II
voman that is to be found on the i'm p
hence surface of the United States is Il
ecruited for New York the very mo. tt
1cnt she is discovered. II
The New England race, as far as it
J to be seen in the streets and public
laces OF Boston, seems to have pre-. q
erved all the clumsiest characteristics 81
t the original stock. Lymphatic e
aces, narrow shoulders, fat chests, in q
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