The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-02-05
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was served by one the other day wfo wore
spectaclss and toothpick. She wa lyoung
and wOuld have been pretty but for the
spectacles and the toothpick. She wore the
boothpick in har mouth, after the masculine
fashion I think many of these girl attend
ants in the restaurants are over-worked.
Hence, pardon their occasional snappish-
ness and inattention TO orders. One trouble
Is that they won't wait long enough to hear
your full order. I have said to one, "I
L want a piece Of pumpkin pie, -"
ThoD the girl Is of and out of hearing.
When she returns with the pie, Icomplete the
rest OF the sentence thus, sand a cup of cof-
fee.s This enrages her. She bites my head off
with her eyes, founces back, returns with
the pie, and so makes two trips where but
ons was needed. But the poor girls patience
and strength were down to zero, through
twelve or fourteen hours labor, and she
must not be expected to be amiable.
Boston does more justice to its public
pies than New York. The Boston mince
pie, or pumpkin. has in its 'true inwardness"
more Of thssrigid, puritanical conscientious
ness fhink a Boston pie maker works
from q frue religious sense of good will
toward rs fellow beings, or with the fear
Of eteraA puhishment beforeehis eyes, if he
should make wicked pie.
The liberty given the Boston public to
use their Common stands out refreshing
CONTRAST Ito that miserable management
which makes of New York's Central Park
little othpr than the rich mans driving
ground. Boys, by the hundred, daily play
ball on tbs Common. True, on the ball
ground thE grass is worn bare But Boston
thinks it batter to sacrifice little grass
rather than deprive the boys of needed re-
creation. GRASS pleases the eye but por
ton Of a public park needs to be something
ether than "A an. London and Paris give
their people mile4 to walk over, lie on and
roll over IN Hyds and Regents Park, the
Bots de Boulogne and Pare st, Cloud.
To obtain permission to play ball. In Gen.
trail E~rk requires alnseat as much formality
a. Go make a win. However, this answers
purpose. It keeps out tna snumerous sons
of numerous plebsians. a.
Boston takes the frequent military re-
views on the Common very quieely. In New
York Jhaspectacle Of a reginegt drilling in
any public square would bring ten thousand
people, blocking walks and streets, hustling,
aamrping and crowding each Other, and two
hundred pr senen would be required TO
keep order In Boston a uniformed regi-
xnent drAlIs on the Common all day, and only
afsw score Of Spectators gather to watch
them.
OF things unspeakable. Boston seems to
have q full chare, OF pitfalls for the wary
and unwary, Boston, after night, has even
more than its share OF a purely American
degradation, Boston can, think, claim 8
larger share than any city in the country.
It reminds one, In this respect, of the large
English factory towns. Boston aspires to
be English Ia tone and styles So she is in
more than one respect.
In Boston public humanity is carried on
to that extent that man is allowed to sleep
In the day time, at full length, on the Conn
mons benches, without being e1ectrifediby
park policeman's club. In New York
such spectacle causes the park policeman
q thrill of delight. He scents the battle
from afar. The New YorlS policeman has a
Hnack of whacking the soles Of such offenders
: With the hgneous weapon provided him by
che city. am told bysuch as have expe-
senced 10 that single HEX shocks the nerves
% the very attic OF the cranifm.
Commonwealth avenue, in appearances, is
as far beyond New York's Fifth avenue as
che Champs EIys6e is beyond Commonwealth
avenue. Commonwealth avenue is the
:Sbode Of Boston's private and particular
wealth. am told that it rests largely on
made ground, and that garbage, dead cats
and tomato cans entered largely into the
sshlling inn But these things are not seen,
no more than Is the unpleasantness inside
the "whited sepulchre."
The Boston barber puts his barber-pole in
mourning. He stripes it in black instead of
red, the New York style The Boston car
conductor is better dressed and more polite
than the New York article. The Boston
car is more roomy, and IS rule,
zgseN II than that of New York Boston
eG1gnifes its street ears with the names, in
gilt, Of its governors, mayors, and other
great men.
Boston families have fashion of CONVERT
ing their Easements into semi-restaurants,
while apparently maintaining above the in.
togr1ty Of their private households In the
Basement window they hang a card bearing
the words ''Table Board. Gentlemen, "a
weekly. Ladies, $50" Or, ''Gentlemen,
$3.50; Ladies, 81 70" Boston ladies are
presumed to eat less than the gentlemen
This assumption is not always satisfactorily
provsn. am told that ladies at board
ing-hcuse table attract gentlemen. Hence,
the reduction In price. I notice that the
curtains Of these family dining rooms are
generally so arranged as to give the street
public q full view of the table, the viands
and the company assembled. There seems
in this superior and subtle sort of manage
ment for advertising, not only the fare, but
the quality of the fairer sex assembled at
those tables.
The greatest trouble Ihavein Boston lies in
having Emerson so often pitched at me. II
attend meeting, large or small, for some
benevolent purpose, the chances are that
some solemn faced man at the commence.
ment mounts the platform rolls up his eyes.
stands in silence a moment, and then ex
plodes with the remark, ''The great Emerson
saId," ana goes on at length to quote Emer-
son. I have already heard in public the
phrase. SgIhe great Emerson" ''The divine
Ewsrseu," 'efhat grand soul, Emerson" in
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