Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-05-27
NEW YORK GOSSIP.
Houss.Top View Of Manhattan Isla,ud,
Sunday Recreation . Blessing.
The Small Boy as an Ex.
cRrsienist.

Inc Smdil BOY rs an Ex.
cHrsienist.
OF the Ledger.
New York, May 24.--It is the met
ropolitan poet who should be the
most persistent perpetrstor Of spring
poetry. Perhaps it is, although We
are prone to associate him with the
green things he writes about and to
suspect that he stakes color from
them to a certain extent. ALI Of
which abstruse philosophy is tho le-
gitimate result Of a New York house.
top-vlew on the May morning of the
above date. So narrow is Manhattan
Island that the outrageous unbroken
green of Upper Long Island and the
mosaic Of green and gray in the rocks
and foliage of Jersey come within
the scope Of the naked eye, and il the
man who sits in an Office for week,
in the heart of rattling, roaring
pandemonium of noise, with his view
limited to one hundred feet straight
ahead, and stopped there by plate
glass and brick, doesn't become tem-
porarily poet at the view that greets
his vision from an uptown roof,
Nature must have omitted an ;c.por-
tant ingredient from his composition.
Any casual observer in this great
city will quickly realize what exalted
wisdom was shown in the provision
of Sunday for creation and will see
what painful cruelty any enforced
Puritan observance Of it would be.
Any bright Sunday morning perfect
wave Of humanity rolls out from the
haunts Of vice and virtue alike, min.
giles at the shores of Manhattan Is-
land and mandates all the surround
ing country. BY skiff and ferry, by
rail, by foot across the bridges q
hundred thousand people 20 to seek
a contrast of one-seventh TO six-sev-
enths Of their lives. They are con-
tent to rest wherever there are trees
and grass instead of piles of brick
and stony pavements, and bird-songs
instead Of the distraction OF ever
rolling wheels. What a little IL takes
to make them happy, to be sureI
And, truly, there are more effective
sermons in these trees and stones
about them and in the blue sky above
them than they would hear read from
dry parchment in musty pulpits il
they varied the four walls of an office
or factory only with the four walls
of church.
There are some things that would
astonish your home readers out there
at Mexico, and nothing more, per-
haps, than to see little toddler
stand on the tips Of his shabby little
shoes to deposit his nickel in the
window of the ferry Office, dodge
between the legs of the crowd Of full
grown pleasure seekers to find "a
F, good place" on the boat, scamper Of
at the other end and go whittier his
six-year-old wisdom leads him, with
, no apron strings or coat tails ol
firm grip of fatherly hand to RESTRAIN
him Hundreds Of these little fcllowi
no older than six or seven make trip
: of fifteen or twenty miles by boat ant
. rail, and play as best suits them al
day long with no dread of ultimat,
retribution, for their parents are tbei
, confederates. Self-reliance 10 tn
. very earliest lesson taught to thous
ands of children of a certain class Il
this city. Whether good or i'll pre-
ponderates as a result is beyond m.
1t keg.>.~fn couple Of weeks two-third
e|or -fourths Of these people VIII
IT go now wherever Nature Is greenes
e will invest twenty cents or so and b
d off to the sea shore to sport in tn
e waves and imbibe an installnent o
q health that will neutralize the effec
d of six days of impure air and tn
d thousand distractions that are the 10
y of the metropolitan worker.
3. For my part, find the pleasure
,r and relaxations Of Gne-seventh Of N.
ir time make life more enjoyable in Ne'
y York than anywhere else, and as ! NJ
doubt represent the majority class il
- that respect this may be solution Q
= the ever-increasing population IN
S' the remarkable cgotism Of New fort
s, ers in a corporation sense. so =
Id speak. L. +. SHErHERD.