The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1877-06-15
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METROPOLITAN NEWS.
Firm our Special Correspondent.
NEW YORK, June, 9Th, 1877

MElhOHO HOLllAN NE WS,
FIRM our Special Correspondent.
NEW YORK, June, 9Th, 1877.
ran over TO Boston on Saturday on
a little business, and found the stately, if
rather pedantic old town, very much as
it always was. 1t has Strengthened out
a few of its corked ways, but for the
most part it is labarynth to the I'M
analytical mind, or to New Yorker
who has not attained a mathematical
acumen before which the senior wrang-
Ter of Cambridge might hide his dimin-
ished head.
found it eminently proper, its people
walking reverently to and from meeting,
as in Puritan times, though not always in
Puritan guise, and some, indeed all the
rich people, took advantage of the mod
ern and private evolution of the one
horse shay.
/ met the epicene crossing Boston
Common, accompanied by man about
whom there was no mistake What is
?" queried the lady friend with me.
That is just the question l have always
asked myself" / answered. 1T goes by
the name Of DR. Mary Walker, and it is
probably feminine, judging from its very
yellow necktie. 1t can't be the same
one it wore in New York, so Isupposeit
must have brought gross of them, be-
cause they were fashionable"
DIR Mary, however, was right. She
walks the streets of Boston without be-
ing particularly noticed, and the horrid
little boys who shouted at her here have
been evoluted there into an admiring
aweand look upon her as the mother-in-
law of the future, whom it will be posi-
bic to treat very differently from the
present one in long skirts.
| A pleasant drive out to Revere Beach
gave us delicious Whit of the salt air,
slightly modified by the odor of few
dead dogs that had been washed in with
the flood and left stranded by the ebb.
However, they were only offensive 20
New York eyes and nostrils. The Bos-
ten mind, educated far beyond any such
paltry prejudices, in which nature as
serts herself. found even here certain
scientific facts which were quite suffic-
lent to overrule any paltry prejudices or
objections which might be made by an
i'll regulated mind or stomach. Atleast
judge so, as the great people found no
difficulty in gazing at what to me and
my friend was exceedingly repulsive, and
rather took away from the beneficial sal
inc atmosphere; but then we were not
to the Boston manner born, and they
were, from the learned and discursive
cobbler and tailor, to the Pantarch him
self, who talked in mysterious phrases of
Deep calling unto Deep" and the pro
bable incandescence of the illimitable
infinitude of the infnitesimal homogen-
Gus atoms"
listened, awe struck, at the length Of
the words and did no. try to compre-
hend. On my homeward drive TO the
Revere House Twas relieved, by finding
that the Boston fireman had terseness
and emphasis in his vocabulary which
quite equalled that of the New Yorker,
and amused himself on Sunday By hav-
ing little private circus of his own
with the department horses in the de-
partment engine houses. 1t was awfully
wicked, dubtless, but then after having
been up in a sort of mystical region
it was refreshing to hear something
mundane, even if profane.
L returned this morning, to find that
the New Workers had been sweltering in
the heat, or going in crowds TO the var
ious nearby resorts. Also that Ray
mond, the champion hatcher of half
dollars has been interviewed; that he
had found living types of all the specul-
tive geniuses he represents as Sellers
equally that he was in the condition of
Billy Birch, the incipient end men of the
San Francisco Ministries, only his was a
dog purchased at the dog show and call
ed Clytemnestra, while Billy's was cat
presented to his lady love which she
called Julia, to the utter disgust Of both
animals, and perfect subversion Of the
truth.
And now / have few words for the
ladies. saw the other day, in the June
number of the Young Ladies Journal, an
English magazine, pretty picture that
attracted my attention, called June
Roses" and found it to be a design for
Poonah painting, an art much favored
abroad. As full instructions and pat
terms accompanied it, i made mental
note oft, for know of no prettier way
of decorating many articles. POonah
painting used 10 be considered a part OF
an elegant education, and in lis revival 1t
will furnish pleasant occupation for
leisure hours, and possibly a paving one
for those who need to add to their in
come. The Roses" looked Ike an
aquarelIe, and the magazine itself was
full of attractive matter for our pretty
girls.
The New York Press Correspondence
Union in connection with its Bureau, is
writing a quantity of speeches for those
artless, ambitious, and patriotic souls
who wish to shine on Independence day,
but who have difficulty in getting fur
ther than The American Eagle, gentle
men" They are filling need also In
revising manuscript for people, and
writing letters. A teachers bureau will
also soon be opened in this connection;
while its offshoot, the New York Press
Purchasing Agency, both at 239 Broad
way, are supplying the people with all
sorts of goods, in large and small quanti-
ties, at the present low city prices.