Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1882-08-17
New York in June.

The first days of summer, which led
us to talk OF old New York, are as
lovely in the New York that we know.
1t is a beautiful season in cities every
where. In Naples and Rome and
Florence the early warm days are de-
lightfnl In London they are the best
of the year. In Paris they are incom-
parable. The Englishman is traveller.
Even the Londoner has his Greenwich
Hill, and his Thames excursion, and
his green Richmond. But the Partisan
is cockney of the cockneys. Paris is
paradise. His gay nature responds
sensitively 10 the season, and spring
upon the boulevards is as smiling AS
spring in the meadows of the Loire.
The Partisan takes kindly TO the
gregarious out-of-door life. The first
warm sun melts his winter clothing,
and he energies in bright light attire.
The broad sidewalks swarm with
pretty toilets and merry groups. Be-
fore every cafe there Is lively circle.
They are drinking coffee, or mild eau
S1ttre, or raspberry syrup, or the fiery
absinthe. They are smoking cigarettes.
vehemently gesticulatlng, and shrug-
Out-of doors, aud the very exteriors OF
tb' buildings, with their balconies and
br,sht-hued stone, have a festal aspect,
and at moments notice will decorate
themselves with brilliant draperies.
There are rich plants with large lus-
trous leaves at doors and upon veran-
das. Birds are singing in gilt cages.
"Does it please monsieur to have a
nosegay ?" asks the most p'quant Of
flower girls; and monsieur. if he be a
noble American, is Ileased-as he re-
marks in his vernacular-everyt time.
If it be his first visit, monsieur seems
never to have known before how beau
tiful is the opening of summer.
But he may observe it as well at
home. The American, indeed. is not
50 much at home Out-of-doors as his
French ally. He makes terrible DIRK
of holiday. Leisure is still little
sinful 10 him. and he looks askance at
the wicked Walt Whitman, who open
ly prints that he "loafs and invites his
soul" No wonder that the Society for
the Suppression of Vice prosecutes
such an Offenderl But des pite himself
the first summer days in New Y DIRK, as
in the other great cities, are delightful.
The very warmth restraints the nation
al rush, and thus imposes an air of
leisure upon the street. Here, too, as
in that Paris of the flower girl, the
windows are all open and the birds
sing; and there are blooming wistarias
clambering upon spouts and blinds,
and bright Enclosures of green grass,
and luxuriant ferns and oleanders upon
palace balconies: and here. too, are the
superb equipages, with female figures
out of the fashion plates, suggestive of
utter idleness and enormous expense
and an incredible worship of Mrs.
Grundy, and here are the club win
dows, with the regulation club gentle
man looking out with his hat on, as he
has seen in London clubs and read in
Mr.. Disrael's novels, and here is the
vast throng in the bright day, the
elders sitting upon the benches in the
parks, the children shouting. and roll
ing on skates and daring the bicycle.
In the shops are such alluring tempta-
tons that money burns the pocket, and
the Jacqueminot roses and all their
fragrant kindred glowing in the win
dows seem to young lovers, as they
pass, only true types and symbols OF
this happy world, all beauty and per-
fume and summer.-Harper'S Maya.
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