Morning journal and courier., 1884-02-27

Copyrighted 1883 by Henry Howe.l
 TN ABOUT THIRTY COMMEMORATIVE XIX. The People Who Sit on the Benches en
 the Green-Amertca the Grand Netting
 pot for the Natfsns-German Grand
 fathers and RAbss-Ths Cash Girls
 DO1 and sparro1vs--A Sunday Evening
 Picture-A "Reminiscences in a slave
 Land-Young Mothers on our Green.
 Our Green is an interesting place for the studysof humanity, for there it is on bicycles, tricycles, parlor skates, in baby carriages, on foot moving singly and in groups on pleasure or on business bent. These with their varied colors, groupings and personalities are at traetive to the lovers of the picturesque and the lovers of his kind, for the sense of the beautiful is ministered unto by the pleasing contrast in the garments of women and children where the gay and brilliant hues flash in the sunlight or deepsn in the shade alongside of pure white or jet black and sober broadly expanded carpet of living green. while the majestic sentinel elms guard the borders and over the whole rests the deep blue dome of day.
 The sense of humanity is enlarged by letting one's heart go out in sympathy with his kind, largely telling people who go there for an hour of freedom from labor and care. It is instructive to walk by the line of benches and observe the faces. The men mostly sit in silence as though they were being calmsd by the quiet of the spot, their eyes resting upon the expanse of vsrdure made more at- tractivs by the changing figures moving on the near and distant paths and the passing vehicles on the bounding streets The sitters vary with the time of day and geason. Early on dewy summer mornings one sees on the benches strangers who have just arrived on the cars and they rest there with their valises beside them. Sometimes there is an agree able surprise in beholding group of unusual elegance of mien and apparel on 8 bench. These are invariably strangers stopping at some hotel; very few of our old New England stock sit there. The sittsrs are mainly of the later European importation or derivation. This is of 8 moro out-of-door, breezy habit. It is this stock which now has the large fami- lies. Everything is getting quserly mixed up, is being poured into the melting pot for the nations the grand melting pot out of which is to come the American of the future. He will be something worth looking at when he arrives. We must have our Green put in the best oe order against that time, and when he goes of on quiet after-dinner nap spread over him bright new American flag, and let him rest under it's evsr-increasing stars.
 The sitters evidently both think and read. One Sunday morninR-our note book has 1t Sunday, 11:15 a. m., September 17, 18S2-" on entering at the south end on Temple street, we were attracted by the long line of that were stretched away for hundreds of feet before in the hands of alters on the row of benches. We were 0smpted to count the readers and found that In that long line of men more than one half were induleing in the blanket-like literature Only one man was smoking At the moment music was coming forth from the Center church, reaching these worshippers in Natures great temple, one only of whom could have been elassed as Parsee. That single fol- lower of zoroaster was of course the smoking man, who carried his fire in the bowl of his pipe. On Sunday afternoons fathers go there with their wives and children, and daily, mothers with their children Among Ger mans the grandfather when too old for labor is largely put iR charge of the baby and German grandfathers frequent such places pushing along in carriages material for the general melting pot. One Sunday we saw in charge of their father, Polish Jew, four small children and the oldest only five years of age, and there had been still another soms- where between, and none were twins. Their n00L Wnlte Qre6SeS ana urge luSGrOuB eyes, black as beads, were pleasing to behold. As we saw them we mentally exclaimed Good ness me! what large, rapid accumulation for one poor man, and you too are in the pot"
 Sunday is 8 glorious day for the humble people who with their children visit our Green. Those who live free from toll dress in purple and fine linen and fare sumptuonsly every day can have no conception of the joy of the change to the less fortuBate the ex- euisite sense of freedom and beauty which the day brings and how such delight to be clad in garments clean and neat. It en- hances their self-respect and gives concep- tions of higher life than that of mere ma terialism and dull plodding toil Their changed appearance is beside 8 better sermon for the observance of the Sabbath than many that come from the pulpit. The strug gle for good tasteful clothes on the part of the humble poor is touching to the finest sensi- bilities. We cannot conceive of more happy sight than the clusters of small humanity often seen around one of the seats, young mothers and nurse girls with babes in car riages and little girls with their dolls. The latter, we have found, never fail, no matter how timid they may be, to respond even to stranger if kindly inquiry is made after the health and name of their dolly, especially if coupled with expressions of admiration of it's beauty and the prettiness of its attire. The enthusiasm manifested on such occasions by these imaginary mothers is sometimes droI. They seem to have many of the joys without any of the sorrows of maternity, and indulge in no anxietiss as to the moral outcome of their little ones.
 One of the pretty sights is the noon gath erin@ of the cash girls from out the stores at the Chapel street end of the Green. They sit circling around on the grass to partake of their lunch, and while they are chatteriBg away in their childish glse the doves, expect ant on the watch, come Hooking thither often in dozens, and the sparrows follow the doves and alighting they peck away outside of the circle, and when the girls leave they are there ground streWn with half-eaten slices and crunnbs of bread and cake, and bits of pie adhering to thrown-away paper bags, and they have plentiful feast and no board bill to settle. One day we saw five doves at work on . single slice of bread, clear around the loaf, with single sparrow trying to get in his spoon, while a dozsn or more other doves and sparrows were fessting close by. The peanut eaters on the benches are like wise known and accordingly watched, and on their departure, often in less than two min 1tes, the doves and sparrows appear to clean 1p. so nothing shall go to waste. It is in- 'eresting to watch the gait of dove moving on the walk, often in front of the sitters While sparrow hops along dove will tread with solid, square putting down of his foot, and at every step nod his head as though ts was an act that each time 1t was made was so important it should receive the courtesy of bow. We are told the doves at night retire for rest