The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-10-19
BOSTON NOTIONS.
A Lsdy's Views Of Couture ''Senii
ment and other Things at the Hub"

That Boston is distinctively peculiar
no one can doubt who will take the
trouble to look up the matter a little.
If living in Boston mean to know six
men-as Emerson once said-there
would be little left for the raconteur,
but the half dozen men hardly cove
the subject. One hears of all sorts of
questions, religious and otherwise, dis
cussed and decided by their promulga-
tors as being essentially Boston. One
prominent ''Radical' assured me that
his %sympathies were all with the Turks;
as any attempt to carry the Cross of
Christ across the country-at the point
Of the sword, to force it upon a people
who preferred the Cresce mt. met with
his disapproval. :
This polytheistic community is not
monotonous on the whole, 1t would be
pleasant to know exactly which, or
what, is Boston. One will observe that
each of the different trumpeters of the
variousissms and school considers him
self, or herself, the only true and relia-
bic representative of the genuine
Boston. Mr. Weiss. in an article in the
new Radical Review, says the revivalist
and the ''walkist'' have been compet-
ing; that Weston finished his 500-mile
walk n Saturday night and sent a
request to the chorister that "Nearer
My God to Thee" be sung the next
morning, as he proposed attending
church; the inference being that the
walkist got the better of the revivalist
by 500 miles. Mr.. Weiss adds that the
Lord will decline to come to the
genuine Boston by such conveyances."
Then there are those of the "only true
and reliable stock' who affirm in
accumulated terms that the Lord did
come in precisely such ways; that there
was agreat flow of soul, and n vast
amount of good accomplished.
l am told there are a great number of
brilliant men here who attend no
church, but are waiting for n second
Theodore Parker, who, when he comes,
will find no church or hall in Boston
large enough to contain the crowd
which will flock to hear him. In the
meantime Phillips Brooks, James Free
man Clarke, and numberless other tall
ented men have no lack of followers.
The friends of Mr.. Weiss are trying
to find a hall for him to speak in Sum
days. Another pulpit celebrity-thcr o-
bustious Murray-with a strong musical
background, draws well, and although
his m are not $50 deep as a wcll,"
they seem to edify the rather picnicky-
looking assemblage who attend him.
There really seems to be no immediate
danger of an drriere pensee in this city
by the sea-theologically, at least.
Next to religion, Couture" "a bright
newspaper reporter tells mel is the par
ticular ''racket." / saw an advertise
ment in a Boston paper the other day
which l think would amuse n beni6hted
Westerner:
"a lady of Emersonian thought and
Il lCLLOouliClNO1 ol'll
and physical, choice library, table and
household appointments in emulation
of Conaro and Thoreau. French and
German spoken"
An applicant for these Emersonian
refreshments stated that she twas will
ing to pay u remunerative price, and a
eompensating price, but didn't wish to
pay an exorbitant price"
The fondness for Ceramics" has
reached its climax, l judge. Jugs,
bottles and bean-pots are being ''decor-
ated;'' even pieces of sewer-pipe are
being Transformed into gaily painted
um~brella-stands. l met a pottery young
lady not long ago who told me she was
attending a course of lectures on the
Ceramic Art" and was taking lessons
in pottery decoration l saw her af-
forwards at Il secondhand book store,
where she was trying to find q cheap
copy of the "Rigveda," and a Shakes
pearean dictionary. Classes are formed
in Sanscrit, and other equally impor-
tant matters for young women to
become inoculated with, who wish to be
considered "cultured." If affairs go
on in this way at the Hub" the next
generation will be liable to meet the
fate of the precocious baby in the Bah
Ballads" who ''died an old dOtard at
five."
Stephen Pearl Andrews is here, sup
plementing all of his culture with his
"Alwaldo, or Uniyersology," the new
science of language, which. he says,
is to ''recast society from mud-sill to
c%ap-stone, on a radically scientific basis
of procedure" He tells me that he
likes Boston because the people are
accessible; that they are provincial
enough to like to drop in and talk up
things; and haye leisure enough to lend
their ears to great truths. 1t is easy
to establish relations with the people
whom one meets here, in the shops and
on the public ways; for a discussion is
in order, which a L Anglaise,