New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-14
JOHNNY BOUQUETS WALKS
SOCIETY MEN AND LITERARY MEN.

AMERICAN Mammals AND NORMAN soNs-IN- |
LAVA VISIT TO LoNGFEILow's BIRTHPLACE
POPULAR POETRY IN AMERICA-oTsEGo LAKE
AND THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES COOPER HOME
sTEAD-MEMoRIEs OF JAMES FENiMoRE COOPER
AND HIS FAMLY-PREsENT ASPECT OF CooPERs-
TOWN.
The influence of vocation on the whereabouts Is
very marked in me, as Jonah remarked TO the
whale Instead of being al Newport according TO my
summer habit providing the polo circle with horal
perfumery and giving by my phantom the only sign
of meropolitanism to that triste abode, behold me
ncking posies for the newspapers at the graves of
the poets and authors My high-aspiring business
associate Mary Ann, is predicting my downfall.
q No man, she says. " ever made an ascent up into
newspapers. But to be the only floral Apollo of
New York is royal descent"
"There's scent somewhere IN the business. Mary
anthan said /. "a centipede, however, would have
too few legs to my patrons down this summer,
so scattered they. My old shanks are very sore
even at peddling roses, and some day. my girl, you
must supply all the customers while keep the hot
house and enrich the flower beds and literature.
What are they doing at Newport"
"They are pronOuncing the English language"
said Mary Ann. AOr rather they injecting it.
The gentlemen are playing shiny horseback,
the ladies crying HOo-zaw
"Why don't they cry Hoo-ray like their grand
mothersp
.Oh. you are behind the times" remarked my
belle s9ur. "There time when American girls
spoke the accent of nature in voices clear the
throats of birds against steel blue air. But they
went abroad and there was no way of advertising
it except by bringing home the and the and
the ratte-trot articulation of tradesmens families
in the Kensington end of London At Newport they
are happy practising it on each other as little
boys trying roller skates together. Everything is
you know and by Jove.' aud 'yos. yos. and Il
say, my dyah. don't you hear Fitzhonry's whiplash
t1o u,pl fhnrn hn
saw nothing sensible in this way of Englishing it,
and one night at a party. when they asked her to
the piano. she ruined herself by singing i'll artcula-
ton clear as a Nantucket costemonger's the
abominable air and words:
Ny country country :, It's as of thee,
OF thee sing
read her out of the best society but bless your
heart! an Englishman, hearing it, went and pro-
posed to her. saying: Dear young miss, have been
hearing nothing since l came to this country but
the seeond-rate affectatous and ideas of the most
parvenue part of London. Let me take you home
rs my wife, and l promise you never to introduce
you to any society that will spoil your beautiful and
natural expression of speech They concluded that
he must be an impostOr; of those hateful sensi-
BILE men,"
"Wen, did the young woman take the English
manp
.Not she. She said she wanted to marry man
United States. Her mother who had been once in
Paris took her right away and packed her down to
Pigeon Cove on Cape Ann. That girl" concluded
Mary Ann, "was old-fashioned thing, and dare
say will have family of nine to twelve children.
all looking like their horrid father"
BLUE BLOOD AND BAD BLOOD.
ats an infatuation, Maryautha" said L. "this
female passion for Anglo-Norman son-n-law.
There is Mrs. Paramater, whose husband invented
the New-England cooking range, and left her two
daughters and million or two of dingleblts. The
elder daughter married square, diligent man OF
business native to these Western shores. After
waiting a long time for husband who would en-
noble or Obterate the memory of the cooking
range, the younger daughter married younger
brother of British bood,-bad blood, but a good
deal OF 1t. The acquisition gambled, raced horses,
had manners, no kindness. no fidelity, no domes-
ITCHY nothing but skin full of brandy and soda
and his name Burke's Annual Dictionary. Yet
unquestionably his brother was peer, belonging to
the only parliame ntary chamber that is permitted
to be stupider than the House of Commons. The ac-
QUESTION was nothing, mere lazy, reckless piece
of inebrety, cool assumption and waste-such
n son as sends American fathers with gray hairs i'll
sorrow to the grave. What of it His mother-n-
law adored him. She said there was Norman
into him. Her elder son-in-law steward
of the estate, and he trembled at the swath tn,
British acquisition making into the revenues
Eitzfuddle would stake five Thousand pounds on al
impossible horse, and lose 1T like Newlork Cour
receiver of estate He would turn to Mamma-in
law who would pay it for him if he had conferred
a favor he would back card with thousan,
pounds, back a yacht with thousand dollars, pal
his hotel bill with "a blank check, and poor Yankee
son .in-law. with real estate depressed and invest
ments bringing only 4 per cent, was worn to
skeleton finding means. This course of ravag
went on for years. until one day. when the Norman
had lost thousand pounds on something or other
the Yankee son-in-law said to his wife's mamma
est ate and we have borrowed all dare Now
Mary Ann what do you think the widow of tn
New England cooking range did. in reply to that I"
"Appiied to Congress, or to the Queen r
mo. she just took a stick and BACKED her Yanke
son-in-law's eyes. and cried Villain! my noble son
in-law shall have money. and you shall get it, or III
whale you az have whaled chief cooks and pastry
men with their skillets'"
"She darkened his democratic Orbs."
"She did He was whaed almost every week O
his life. His head had as many Busters on il a
Maryland biscuit dough. He knows now what it
to have Norman brother-in-laww
THE BABY LoNGFELLow.
Longfellow's birthplace in Portland is curiou
study of old and Seeing photographs of
appended to his portrait, we inquired where
might be found, and were directed to descend froi
the hilly business quarter down to the old region
narrow circular streets along the harbor's edg
There once abided Portland when it was a town {
wood houses and of elns. of roads an
vessels on the stocks. rampant the water
Now the railroad creeps around the harbors rim
the wharves smell and stew, and respectable fam
lies have generally built on the plateau, away b
yund the modern promenade town.
The Longfellow house is very large three-stoI