, 1877-11-04
BOSTON,.
A Witty New Ycrker Comes to the
Hub and Introduces a New
Fashion.
Traditional Boston and Young
Boston at Odds.
The Radical Clubs New Art Club'-.lts
Wide Basis.
A Little Genius--Sara Jewett and Her
"4aniohef" Gowns.
From O1tr O.vn Correspondent.

From Onr DUN Correspondent.
| Boston, Oct. 31.-A witty New Yorker speak
lnr OF Boston to me the other day said airily1,
g. have noticed that the wise fashion now is
for the stranger to abuse Boston secondhand,
in this style: have always heard Boston critl-
cised as being d very inhosp1table place for
strangers; people exclusive, and wanting to
know about your grandfather and ai that sort
OF thing. But really l have never found it 80.
like Boston, ami have found the people any
thing but inhospltablc. I enjoy myself very
much in Boston!' This is q very wise fashion,
and am making use of it on every possible
OCCASION myself" And the airy New Yorker
smiled an inscrutable smile, and nodded
wicLcdly over the points OF his shirt-collar. Five
minutes after heard him putting the" wise
fashion " to proof He was addressing himself
to Boston dowager, with her gray hair, or
somebody's clse gray hair, piled up pull upon
puff upon the the top OF her head. And at her
look Of acceptance, at her look OF approval,
as the New Yorker delivered himself Of this lit
tie speerh, Immediately went over to his csti-
mute OF the wisdom contained in it.
THE OLD TRADITION OF WORLDLY THINGS
Was in her miud, Us it is in everybodr's mind in
iegari to the 'smodern Athcns.' That 1t Is the
hot-bel Of exelusiyenrss. That to enter It's
rugou-guardcI gates is to hold talisman be-
fore Which Royalty might bow graciously.
And here was stranger, profane New Yorker,
to whom the gates yielded without creak.
Happy man! And i'll the eyes Of the dowager,
rs there would be in the eyes OF every tradition
believing Bostontan: there was Z halo OF the
bluest blue encirclns the head OF this stranger
who TALKED SO glibly OF his ignorance OF the be-
lived city's inhospitaity.
Later, MY wise anu witty Gothamite beamed
over his success. ''You see how wcllitworked,"
hc commented glccfu1ly. Which | admitted.
But. outside Of all this, there is younger Bos-
ton vino is
NOT TIED TO TUE APR0S-sTHISG5 OF THAT OLD
MoTnER-GoOsE TRADlT1oN,-
d Younger Boston who doesn't care in the
least for George Ticknor and the old Beacon
street set of with he WIS representative,
hut who has an irreverent way Of speaking of
them as "'those worthless" To these, Emer-
sou, and Algcr, and John Weiss are infinitely
tclter culnuany, and, instead Of believing in
tradition he is rather apt to disbeeye in it, and
to look as!lauce ut very blue name, with an
expression that asks, "Does le know anythirg
ont Of the old rutst'' Aud here Is the watcll-
word, the ,,, open sesame to Young boston's
'.Wl,at has he ,.onc!' II the first question can
be answered satisfactorily; if the candidate is
ycrscl in all the dead and gone lore Of the dead
aud gone a.es; If he cat read Sanscrit and talk
icarneIly OF the s. African Fathers,' with the
modern thrown in, and .lescant 1libly Of Darwin,
aud Huxley, and Suencer, etc., he may have the
freedom Of Young Bcston's world, though
lis clothes are cut in the fashion Of
Noah'$, and his gr2udiaticrs we're no.hin9
and nobody. Add to this tue accomplishment
Of sosne purpose, the fixed and tangible result.
such as Il book toow1se for common folk to read
more :nan tic title, and Young Boston does
more than welcome the stranger.-
NE AND SIZE JoTFULLY FLING OUT THEIR ARMS
TO HIM,
aud receive him with sounding acclaim. The
fashion OF clothes is Of no earthly consideration,
and gra1ldiatlcrs are unthought OF. Encircled
with that divine nimbus Ut "cullur" :" AMI ac
complislicd result, the candidate takes the lead
OF ali the blue-blood in the world, and where he
sits is the lea Of the table. All the clubs in
the cite are proud to open Their doors to him,
and tho I.yccl1m and other associations, for
s.mucll talkec talkec u at II paving price, are