Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-11-16
The EAST AND TIE WEST.
Some Forceful Comments on Their Dis.
tinctive Traits.
Especial correspondence.l

lopSCldl correspondence. EH
Boston, Nov. S.-To appreciate Boston give
ten days to Chicago, Chicago is intensely ener-
getic and stupendous, but raw and uncouth.
Chicago Is a splendid boyin the goslin period;
he doesn't care a cent whose toes he treads on.
He believes in himself more than dad and
mann or any of his uncles. He whistles. sings,
yels and goes straight as IN arrow for what
he likes. You look at him and you say
what a splendid animal you are, but you
are not refined. You buy your paintings
and books in the lump. As for the drama,
your taste is decidedly for the crude. You
hke beer and own the finest horses in the
world Boy like, you brag of anything you
have There is power and possibility in you,
but am not sure that you will ever be q
great man,
Boston is q gentleman of classical training.
proud OF his university, and withal a little
p%edantic. If you are from the west or south
you will find him very courteous, but his
courtesy will patronize just.a little, His
manner viii sayfszaAs af, 5we:;,.you western,
and southern people have independence, off
handedness and %franbness. You may be gen.
ttemen, but | am a scholar and a gentleman.
l have toured Europe all over. In painting.
the drama and music / patronize only the
best. Ny motto in all my purchases is quail
lty, nos Quantity. I am not so much an
american as a citizen of New Eaotand.n
Il ride like the Englishman, I trim my
beard and comb my hair a la Angiaise. NV
models and standards in literature are Eng
lish. Away with your Walt Whitmans and
your Joaquin Miilers. / am not blase. that
Is too French, but / cultivate the nil admirayt
OF the English gentleman. Altogether I am
the most select and exclusive tbjnp in
America"
Tourist reader, if you are tired and wish
rest and recreation go to Boston, and wander
AMID its leafy suburbs of Brighton, Brookline
and Cambridge. If you are a business man
and wish q new infusion of business energy
go to Chicago and stand on La Sale or Dear
born streets, and be awed by the wh;rr. swish
and sweep of the wheels of traffic. Boston
has its share of illiteracy, however. / have
seen within five miles of Boston the horseshoe
over the door as a bona fde witch charm
and not as an ornament.
a few days ago, q party starting out to
find the home of the late Edwin P. Whipple
found a score of persons that knew nothing
OF him in finding one that did. And this.
too, when all the while they were within n
bow shot of his home.
Cambridge, or rather Harvard university
OF Cambridge, does much to determine the
literary atmosphere of Boston. Among the
students of every college or university there
is a cattus or esprit that especially charac-
terizes that institution. With Harvard it is
the nI adrairdri and the cultivation of the
indifferent. Enthusiasm is boycotted by the
quite as much as egotism. The
average Harvard student affects a noncha-
lance That amounts almost to a swegger. I
saw tive Japanese students come into the
library that had caught the Indifferent
agg With their Oriental faces it pro-
duced quite a comical combination.
The extreme OF this results in a bruso,e-
ness of manner that almost approaches tbe
confines of boorisilness. This story goes the
rounds: A Harvard student had gone home
with a classmate to spend his vacation. The
classnate tells his friend ."There is a yo1np
lady stopping with us; a chum of my sisters
would you like to meet her?" eH-e-m. alb
Well trot her out The young lady heard
the speech. They entered the parlor. the
Young man was presented, she looked at him
nonchalantly. "H-e.m, ah-w-e-n trot him
back" 1t Is needless to say that quite unset
the young mans acquired indifference I'm
less indifference is indigenous to his brain a
man had better turn his attention to the cul-
tivation of something else. Among fine
athletic clubs this has its good sides. result
ing in a Spartan endurance and Indifference
to heat OF cold. At one time in this rigorous
climate it was a rare thing to sec a Harvard
student with an overcoat on in midwinter.
l know a captain of one of the Harvard
crews that always slept between open win
lows, a draught of air passing over him with
his chest bare. The crew always rowed bare
beaded, stripped to the waist. They caught
a breath of the spirit that treathes from
SCOTS words,
Alike to HIM was time or tide.
Decensberss snow or July's pride;
Alike TO hin, was tide or time.
Moonless midnight or matip prime.
Harvard has advantages for laying the
for a broad culture over any in
Ill tho country. But In Individual
development of force and character many
western and southern Institutions are ahead
OF At. Harvard is strong and It's esprit is
tyrnnnic enough to compress a yontlss mind
INTO a presciihed mold. In the eastern and
southern institution the literary or Debating
society is half of the culture Of the student
and that Is conducted by the students them
selves entirely. And in them there is oppor.9
tunlty. for the growth and development OF
individuality and originality.
CLAIBORNE ADDISON Young.
A correspth dent says; Those who have
only seen Rome. in winter have little idea IF
ihe real charm of the city ms it reveals itsHf
on q snn1mer day. The whole working pop