The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-10-12
THE YANKEE AT BONE.
p'e" Oh Boston, Through Southern
SpeCtacles.

toTe1p3ndc1ce Netrs a,ul Courier.
hr SEA, September 23.-In nv las
!s''er promised to say something ahon,
!he people of Boston, but unless he rolI
ing OF The ship diminshcs ! shall nu,
De aoie to say much.
lhe rolling did not diminish but in.
creased. With the troubles that hecail
me bcrEshirc from the time she left pro-.
luence until she reached her destination
lhirty-six hours late, will not weary
your readers, but proceed at once q, H.,
business in hand. what is it." manfred
walter Bagehot, "that makes nations so
much alike, when seen from without va,
80 80 dIssimilar when seen from within ~ ~
,.hat ,hat Is 10 say, why are all Germans 20
different from Frenchmen or Italians anS
YET so unlike each other? The question
10, 10 more easily asked than answered
3hat mere IS wide difference or dissim.
.iarity between the people Of Boston and
.he people OF Charleston or Savannah
every one knows, but wherein this differ.
eice CONSISTS no one can tell precisely.
- ~ countryman who had never travelled
n!ity miles from home perceives this un.
LIKENESS much more quickly than one
VINO knocks about the world great deal
observing in my visits to New York
vi iate years a growing tendency on the
part Oh It's citizens to resume the physi-
c'i type OF their ancestors, expected to
lnd III Boston still more marked return
to the original Anglo-Saxon physique.
In this was disappointed. PROPOSES.
slons carry one long way, but in this
instance the opinions had formed were
SO lar from being verified by the facts
mat could not retain them even for a
day. The argument in my mind was
that the New Englander of the weather.
class: accustomed no longer to clans and
c0i:iSii, but using good roast beef and
mutton, ales and wines as freely as q
Londouer must necessarily resemble him.
Nothing of the kind. For the first few
days after reaching Boston, it seemed to
me that both the men and the women
were singularly like Marylanders or Vir-
ginians. This though to a certain ex-
tent true is also mistake, as found in
the course Of week or two. In certain
parts of the city, the people you meet
belonging to the educated and refined
classes have the look which belongs to
that class generally the world over. Ad-
ded to this is the New England physiog-
nOmy which the Southern man so we'll
understands, but which is so difficult to
define with exactness. 1t would be an
error, however, to suppose that this New
England cast is what we have been &C.
customed to think it, viz: hard, sharp,
eager. The SNAP" Of The people is less
dlscoverable in their faces than in their
voices. The man or woman, Young or
old, who looks To YOU SO much like a
Southerner, ceases to have that look the
moment = word is uttered. The tone in
tcrprets the character instantly. You
perceive that if this person has thing
to do he is not going to do it in lazy,
roundabout way. He has a belief in
himself that his face alone does not inLi-
cate. From childhood he has been ha-
bituated to the idea that what has to be
done in this world to advance his indi-
vidual interest must be done by himself,
at once, and in the most direct way. He
has been trained to take care of Number
One, knows how 10 do it, and intends to
do it all the time.
Let it not be supposed that this self
assertion which is apparent in the vibrant
tones OF Bostonians is offensive III the
iSrSC oSSlCS, SASSl'l " tilOsC oltIy
Southern ears which cannot bear for an
instant what is called the Yankee twang.
Of this twang proper / heard very little,
various hotels and public places in
said 81 swaow," nor did any one in my
That sort of talk is found now only in
tho III T
perceive in any of the many stores which
entered that quickness at closing bar
gain, or that indisposition to talk long
time over business matter, which we
have been taught to expect from the peo-
pie of this section. Merchants and their
clerks were much like that class else
where. Going into Jordan, Marsh and
Co.'S. great store one day found more
clerks than customers and great wiling
ness to chat on the part of the form er,
and on another occasion when the store
was full the same readiness To indulge in
pleasant little confab was manifested.
Some of my young friends from the
South claimed 10 nave discovered great
many pretty girls with fine figures, and
fiji entire absence Gf these !ang bcny eS-
tremities which are supposed to be an
indispensable part OF the Northern
female anatomy. If did not find SO
much beauty as these young gentlemen,
I certainly did find some uncommonly
lovely women. It seemed to me, how
ever, that of highbred young ladies' there
was great lack. Old ladies, middle aged
ones and school girls were very abun-
dant, but thoroughbred girls of eighteen
and twenty, and thereabouts, were rare.
Perhaps they had 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 planks tongued and grooved,
and painted a neutral tint, presenting a
very odd appearance. Flat chested,
consumptive.looking women did not
see, although was on the lookout, ex-
pecting to encounter them at almost
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