Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-26
A Study of the Yankee.

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 journinR south Carolina Erofessur.
 [From Letter by pr. G. ". a.by in the Char:es-
 ton News
 Observing in my visit to New York of late years growing tendency on tho part of its citizens to resume the physical type of their ancestors. 1 expected to find in Boston a still more marked return to the original An lo-Saxon physique In this I was disap pointed Prepossessions carry one 8 long way, but in this instance the opinions I had formed were so far from being verified by the facts that I could not retain them even for day. The argument in my mind was that the New Englander of the wealthier class, accustomed no longer to clans and jcodfish, but using good roast beef and nut ton, aies and wines as freely as Londoner, must necessarily resemble him. Nothing of the kind. For the first few days after reach tug Boston 1t seemed to me that both the nen and the women were singularly like Ma rylanders or Virginians. This, though to a certain extent true, IS also a mistake, l 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. Added to this is the New England physiognomy, which the southern man so well understands, but which Is so difficult to define with exactness. It would be an error, however, to suppose that this New England cast Is what we have been accustomed to think it, viz hard, sharp, eager. The ''snap'' of the people is less dis coverable in their faces than in their voices The man or woman, young or old, who looks to you much like a southerner ceases to have that look the moment a word IS uttered. ! The tone interprets the character instantly. l You perceive that if this person has thing to do he Is not going to do 1t in lazy, round I about way. He has belief in himself that l his face alone does not indicate. From Enhil Ln 1>,l,I tnl A14 4foA I that what has to be done in thls world to ad ! vance his individual interest must be done by | himself at once, and in the most direct way
 He has been trained to take care of Number l One, knows how to do it, and intends to dc ! it all the time.
 Let it not be supposed that this self asser ! tion which is apparent in the vibrant tones of Bostonians is offensive in the least degree 1 except to these morbidly southern ears whicf l cannot bear for an instant what is called the l Yankee twang Of this twang proper heard | very little, although | wandered about tn, town in various hotels and public places il
 search of character studies Nobody said :"
 swaow," nor did anyone in my presence OK
 claim 1T swan tew man." Nor did l per
 ceive in any of the many stores which 1 en
 tered that quickness at closing bargain, o l that indisposition to talk long time over
 business matter, which we have been taugh
 to expect from the people of this section | Merchants and their clerks much lik
 that class elsewhere Going into great re
 tail dry goods store one day I found nor
 clerks than customers and great willingness
 to chat on the part of the former, and O
 another occasion when the store was full tn
 same readiness to indulge in O pleasant littl confab was manifested.
 Some of my young friends from the Sout
 claimed to have discovered great man
 pretty girls with fine figures, and an entir absence of those long bony extremities whic aFa n an understandable the northern female anatomy. If I did n' find 50 much beauty as these young gentl men, certainly did find some uncommonl lovely women. IL seemed to me, howeve 8 that of high-bred young ladies there wi S great lack. Old ladies' middle-aged on