Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-26

not returned from the summer resorts. Many rich people were out of town, as the doors of their houses on Marlborough and Beacon streets showed. These doors were boarded up with narrow blanks tongued and grooved and painted g neutral tint, presenting very odd appearance, Flat -chested, consumptIve- looking women I did not see, although l was on the lookout, expecting to encounter them at almost every turn. Nevertheless pulrno- nary diseases must be rife. for they have ln the suburbs a large building in the midst of extensive grounds which Is called 1.-The Con- sumptive's Home," and is designed no doubt for those who are not rich enough to travel abroad, or to spend their winters in Aiken or in Florida.
 One fine sunny morning, being in the low CT part of Fremont street, near the Common, and finding the stores aud sidewalks thronRed with well-dressed women, l ventured into picture dealers, who had an art gallery In the rear of his establishment, and took good look at the fair danes who passed in and out. It seemed to me that l saw in short time more tall and large framed women than I ever saw before in my life. They re- minded me of the ladies saw in Huntsville, Ala some years ago. l became aware. too, that was in an atmosphere of "culture" or something near akin to it. Here, again, as in so many other places, young girls were wanting. The ladies, from twenty-five to thirty five, many of them apparently unmar- ried, who discussed the pictures with their
 matrOnly friends, had 1n some instances the soft, dark eyes that we are accustomed to see in the South, but not soft, so dark, or so large as those with which we are familiar.
 Apparently there were as few flaxen haired,
 blue eyed women of the Saxon type as we see at home, and while there was color in the cheeks of most of them, the roses were not so deep hued as I had expected to find.
 Brunettes, in the truo sense of the term,
 were almost wholly wanting, and dark skinned men were rarely seen. One of my
 friends from the South declared that nearly every man he saw was ruddy in complexion.
 This may have been so, but l was not inn
 pressed by the fact. The splendid looking
 men, tall, powerful, handsome, faultlessly dressed, that one so often meets in New York are not seen in Boston. Nor did l see many
 portIy se1gneurs of the solid banker pattern, the majority of he business men rarely indi- eating either in person or in face more than average vigor. Of what is called by the New England magazine writers the Brahmin type I did not chance to meet single specl- men. Had gone to Cambridge I might pos sibly have encountered some of them.
 About one thing I think I cannot be mis-
 taken. In the various cities with which am acquainted I have often been struck with the
 fact that the signs on the principal thorough fares show a greater number of German than of English names. You will find it so on
 Baltimore street, on Chestnut and particu- larly so on Market street in Philadelphia, and | l. serve last summer. It appeared to me that
 from the Battery up to Union Square two thirds of the names were of Teutonic origin.
 This is not the case In Boston, where nearly all the names on the signs are English. was much impressed by this fact. Not only
 were these English names in the majority on the leading business streets, but out In the suburbs the same thing was seen. Even the barbers are Americans in most cases. These facts have for me great deal of significance. They show that in New England alone does the native American of British extraction discover strength enough to hold his own against the thrifty German. l have noticed that the advertisements in the country papers of New England are full of English names. It is not to be wondered at that the German, whose store and dwelling are in the same house, whose partner is his wife, and whose clerks are his sons and daughters, should gradually supplant our American merchants, who keep up two establishments, store and ! a residence, and never think of employing their children as clerks. I could name cer- tain southern city in which the Germans, or at least msn of German extraction, have | driven the Americans almost completely out of the business field the retail trade having ! been virtually abandoned to them.
 When told Boston friend that Boston l was the most thoroughly English city l had ! ever seen, he laughed me to scorn. ''Why, l man, " he exclaimed, ''there are 15O, GOO Irish [ | smphasis he laid on 'rule' was marked. ! What feeling there is throughout the eastern ! States against the Irish! My friend to the
 contrary notwithstanding, I still insist that ! the signs in Boston do indicate larger pre- l ponderance of Americans in business than in ! any other city on the Atlantic coast, If not In
 the country at large.
 Finally, it must be said of the Bostonians | that they love their city with a devotion
 qualed only by the love the men of the Mid ! dle Ages bore thsir cities, when cities were \ States, as Venice for example Proof of
 their affection is shown in many ways,
 particularly in the liberality of subscrip | tions for works of art and public improve
 ment. Not unfrequently double the sum
 aeeded Is subscribed, the surplus going to
 other Improvements and adornments not al
 first contemplated. It is said by those in
 position to know that the Bostonian loves
 his city more than his State. If he love
 one he will most certainly love the other
 Pride in Massachusetts he cannot fail tc ! have, as one may see who visits the State l House. Relics of the Revolution and o1 l the late war are housed there with tht ! greatest care and jealously guarded from
 the profane touch of the vulgar. This low | and pride for State and city should be I bond of union between the people of Mas
 sachusetts and our own people in Carolini ! and Virginia. I believe there is some sucl ! bond. In years to come, when there shal ! be new alignment of parties and of sec ! rions, we shall discover that the institution ! of the Atlantic States from Maine to Florid , ! have much in common. They older, il a Sense more civilized, slower, more conser vatiye. more European. The peculiar dis | tinctiye impetuous American is being devel
 oped on the other side of the Appalachia , ! chain in the great basin of the Mississippi | As the years go on he will be moro and nor differentiated from his countrymen on thi side of the Alleghanies-will have ideas . aims. ambitions and above all power of hi F ! own which will assert itself, perhaps not d , ! together to the liking of the Atlantic coas
 But that is far away thing. A thing ths f | is not far away is the longing look seuthwsr
 ] on the part of young Bostonians with whol B 1 [ talked. Evidently our southern exhibit
 had impressed them. What more natural a I Twenty years ago the South proved an 1 1 Dorado to thousands or Yankee youth; n I will prove so again in much less than twent f | years This is the lesson of the second al nual fair of the New England Institute to tf s ! New Englander himself; the lesson to ou selves is to see that the lions share of tl 6 new development of the South falls to dwel h CTS on the soil We are masters of our co t ton mills let us be masters of all oth' t mills, factories and industries that sprir n up in our midst. Above all, let us not r . ! peat our old folly in & new form by co1 !, ining ourselves to the manufacture of co , ton alone. Diversity industry in the mills a we'll as in the fields Grow everything ar O make everything we can-that should be o' l. motto.
 7. To Fill a Newspaper.
 z From Chambers JournaLl
 It is a common fallacy among the gener It public that it must be very difficult matt Il to find naws to fill each day' 's paper So f