, 1880-09-06
Cincinnati as Boston Sees 1t.

Cincinnati as Boston Sees 1t.
A correspondent of the Boston Herald
thus writes of the Queen City of the
West:"
This is the self-entitled "Paris of
America, and it does resemble Paris
viewed through a smoked glass. Then,
too, the inhabitants strongly resemble
Parisians in their devotion to beer.
Out of the 10000 adult male citizens,
60 900 are engaged daily in carryil
around 10000 over-developed abdo-
mems. You meet Falstaffs brother
every three yards. When the big bel
lied Cincinnatian gets overheated, he
doesn't betake himself to an ice cream
saloon, but to the nearest beer-garden,
of which there is one to every 1000 In
habitants. The beer momentarily cools
him, while the low table at which he
sits serves as a rest or brace to his forty
pound abdomen. After having rested
this peculiarly Cinciunatian malforma-
tion of the human form divine, the re-
spected citizen goes out on the street
and shouts "Oh, boy!' two or three
times. Up runs gamin, carrying a
sort of German silver arrangement,
containing boiled sausages. The re-
spected citizen takes a boiled sausage
and bit of bread and slowly munches
the delicious lunch. This is truly Par
risian, and reminds one of the boule-
wards. Boiled sausages are eaten in
Cincinnati when the mercury registers
ninety degrees in the shade, and to the
young man thinking of visiting the
Paris of America, would suggest that
he should never escort Clnclnn vi
girl out of an evening without treati 'g
her to beer and boiled sausages. She
would resent an ice as an insult to the
native fruit of the PorkopOlitan vine.
When you are in Paris, you will, OF
course, do what the Parissiennes wish
you to do.
The Cincinnati women, as IN fact the
women of the great eorn-fea West IN
general, are we'll developed and look
fully capable Of nursing their own
children, or of leading hungry tramp
by the ear down the front door steps
The women of the West are carnivor
Gus animals, consuming much ham
pork and boiled sausage. l strollec
through several of the large ClnclAnat
markets 30 as to get an idea OF the pop
ular subsistence The market stall'
we're frequently kept by great sturdy
women, who sharpened their knives
with strength and JUNCTION. The pur
chasefs were, perhaps, two thirds o
them women, all carrying their market
baskets. They were all buying pig =
pig in the van, cooked pig, smoked pig
ground, chewei and packed pig. Bo
iogna sausag's, hog g's-head cheese
pork chops, bacon, etc., filed the bas
kets of these Cincinnati matrons ant
boarding house keepers. The roasting
beef is left for the Hebrew resident,
and such hotels as are patronized b.
faetidious Easterners. The people ca
II great variety of vegetables, which, II
part, counteract the grossness of tn
pig diet. In Cincinnati, however,
saw more hungry people than in Chi
cago, where even the trafnps and beg
gars are we'll fed.
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The smoke is another annoyance
Except for a few hours on Sunday, o
alter a thunder. shower or rain-storn
tie air is filed with SCOT and smok
from the bituminOus or soft coal uni
versally used. A clean collar at 8 A. n
is unfit for an unclean tramp at nool
}, Don't get out of bed in your stockin
feet, for the soles of your hose wi
look as if you had been walking on th
, bottom of charcoal wagon instead {
upon a chamber carpet. Near the viii
dows the CARPET is always stained, as
/ hy the upsetting of an ink bottle. Sti
the ladies wear white. stlHy -starche
| skirts, as they do in even smoker Pitt
) burg. In Cincinnati you should nevt
scratch or put your finger to your fac'
j Ii you do, you will leave streaks I
} white, and disturb the somber mono
r ony of your complexion. New Eul
, land ladies who keep house in Clncil
natl get desperately mad the first montl
the second they mediate suicide. b.
= the third they make up two d.ze
5 white skirts and go out oa the pror
t enade and help keep up the delusie
(dear to the feminine hearty that th.
!. are clean people in clean world. {
On the bluffs, and beyond in the mob
: suburbs, the air is clear, and clean
: housekeeping is as easy as in New En-
+ land.
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