, 1879-03-23
BOSTON,.
The Little FLud Between Gotham and
the Hub--Callins Names.
4 True Story Of Both Sides--~A Fallen
Ideal and Idol.
Sardou's New Play at the Boston
Theatre--John Weiss.

/ AAGak16---0ouu " G1S3s
t From Our 0.un Corr<spondens
BOSTON, March 20.--Therc is always q bitter
fcud between New York and Boston peoplc.
| Publicly theY will pay each other compliments
| at big state or complimentary banqucts, or on
other occasions when the world is looking on
they will " do the handsome thing" by each
| other. But underneath there burns the little
| fire OF rancor. New York accuses Boston oil
| setting hcrsv1f up and considering herself SUI
| rcrior to the resto OF the country in intellectual
! proclivites and culturc,-wltness the small slap
quoted last week from the At|antic article GU
| New York theatres, concerning the " "complacen-
| cy Of Bostonians in g their well-known SUPER
cminencc in the fields Of moral and intellectual
| effort" With these accusations 60 the corrc-
! spending ones Of coldness, stiffness, and bad
manners Boston retorts with comment upon
"shallowness :" and " fastness," and makes
herself generally disagrccable by doing the best
she can for the time being in deserving the
| name That New York has bestowed upon her,
As applied in the way of generalization, all
these onprobrious terms are OF course absurd; !;
as applied now aud then to individuals on either
side, they are true enough, as we ali know. But
because Mrs. Gotham occasionally chances to
be louh," aud
| TALKS GAKRuLoUSLY OF HER DIAMONDS, ETC,
while she with simulated naivcte conveys d
sncer to Mrs. Trimount on ''the bookishness
Of you Boston people," it is not therefore to be
taken for granted that all the Gnthamites are
low and i'll bred, either about their diamonds or
their cnvious little deprecations which they call
stalking down" Boston pride. Neither, when
Mrs or Miss Trlmount lift their chins super
ciliousy and drop their cyelids, and say, "We
don't like that kind OF thing in Boston, you
know. We Boston people are very English"
Is it to be taken for granted that all Boston
goes about with its chin in the air, and its eye
lids lowered while it gives forth its little CON-
placcnt brag, which holds within it supcrcil-
ious scorn OF the bigger place.
AL this is apropos Of Two or three little incl
dents that point tile moral Of the text. Let me
present number Que OF these incidents: One OF
Mrs. Gotllam's daughters,
"D10, BROWN, AND BuxoM,"
as Rochester described Miss Ingram. marres d
TTltnounter, and comes to the city OF his love to
live, bringing with her q wonderful toilette
such Us she is sure Boston never saw the like
of,-whfch was very true, becausc Boston, what
ever else she may do, never errs on the side OF
Sloul" dress ut hotels and other public places
Of thar description. And it was here that my
lady offended Boston taste to begin With. She
appeared at hotel breakfasts in gorgeous morn
ing-robes, wllereat the Boston dame and demoi-
sellc, who invariably presents herself at that
matutinal meal in her walkiny-uress Or in a
dark desni-toilcttc house-dress, lifted her eve
broNs Il little and murmured, Loud" But
Mrs. Commandments hears nothing and sus-
Cccts nothing Of this kind, and goes on her way
rejoicing in the plenitudc and magnificonre of
her clothes. The rrimountcrs: however, over
look this to certain extent. ut is New York,
you know!'' But presently
ME LADY OF TIE WARDROBE.
disappointed in not being welcomed as she had ex-
pected nttar1s the 'culture" OF the Hubbites
She is Invited to attend certain intellectual
feasts where there is the inevitable "paper II
read, OH some abstruse subject. And she re-
turns therefrom clevatlny her eyebrows and dis
charging various little errors OF ridiculc. Now
we are good many OF us perfectly ready to
let Il stranger try it at his or her peril! The
stranger, too, is ut the disadvantage OF offend
ing certain cauons Of good breeding by ridicul ]
inG the entertainers FEAST SO that the offensc is
redoubled and the wrath and scorn OF the Hub
bites has excuse to rise into white heat.
Mrs. CT, however, not yet learning wisdom |
by the polite puncturcs Of dlsdain which are ad-
mnistcreI by these scornful ones, next expresses
way that reveals something OF her soreness. She
chances to express this, or she pans to
express it to t;so Or three ladies whose dearest
friends are in tho blue book Of literary celebrity.
Then her doom is sealed, and she wakes to fnd |
that s'little Boston," us she conLcmptuously |
terms her scorners, has deliberately turned its |
hack upon her, and pronounced her Ineligible to |
Boston's "bsst society," or course this is II
fragrant case, but it is the fragrant cases that |
cause all the ranror. Now to turn to the other
side, Will let Blondina tell the story Of Bos-
ton woman who has always been held I'D as |
model. and who is d member OF this " best soci- |
cty.' II was sitting in tOsgood's' one day."
seid Blondina, by the way, let me cxplain that
~ ttrS3 ffSe1
publishng-nouse when it was on the corner of |
Park street, aud u general rendezvous for all lit
erary ncoplc,-ssAnd as I sat there there came I
In, first Mrs Commeilfaut.
WAS DELIGHTED
to meet her because always had great ad-
niration for her, aud had believed IN her good,
ness her sincerity, and her genuineuess, and
specially stood to her fine breeding when vari-
ous people criticized her cavaiicrly. When
had heard people snccr when she advocated
some reform, and mint that it was only q sentl-
ment with her, and that she advocated it partly
for that sentiment and partly for her own
glory, and never for genuine, earnest belief in
the cause, secuted the sneer and the mint.
Even while they held OIL, however, and had no
weapons whcrewitb to dcmol1sh this kind OF at
tack, consolcd myself with one thing: my
admired Mrs. Commcitfaut was ady,-a
woman OF perfect breeding: nobody could at
tack her there. WE'LL to return to Osgood's,
was sitting there that day, having charming
Western friends who, am sure, had an equal
admiration for the celebrated Mrs. Commeilfaut
that had. As we all three met We fell to talk
ine Of Mrs. C.'s approaching gardcu-party.
Have you invited Mrs. Leo Huntcrr inquired
one Of lhc Western friends, who was interested
in Mrs. l.. II. from her hosptaiities, and really
was lesirous of meeting her again. Immediately
Mrs. Commeilfaut's delicate eyebrows go up,
Yes hare invited her, but it was like taking u
lose Of mctlicne!'
For the space OF minute you could have
heard pin drop III the vicinity about US three.
WAS DEPICTED ON THREE
FACES \
hose OF the two Western friends, and on that
of your humble servant. Mrs. Commc:lfaut
vas entirely at her case. For myself, something
,ad broken, AN i1lrsion had gone up. That my
Mrs. Commefaut, Of whom had always boast
ID as the pink and pattern Of delicate breed
ny, could speak thus and 70 compara-
i've strangers Of person whom she
lad biddcn to her house, and Of whose hospital
tcs she herself had par:alson, vas q bitter blow
% my idea1t Later heard my fallen idol COM
ncnt thus upon young girl who was not in