Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-06-20

/ The enjoyment: that country people find
I on grass cove~"t lawns AMI wide pOrches,
the pen, le OF New York those who cannot
seek the rra -urt-enough country" find on
thr fiat rOOfI that shelter them from rain
and storm A bild's-eNe view OF the city In
the carly evening would reveal many an in
tere,ting scene, with back ground Of chin
neys, water tanks. skyIights AMI telegraph
wires. There Cupil dsports himself. for,
like death he has all places and all seasons
for his own Thither Melancholy goes to
rood on her sorrows. and the solitary re-
tire to be still NOR, solitary And there,
too, children laugh and romp and play.
As the heat of summer increases, the roofs
are more an | more uti.izai When 1t is diff
tirut to hI Icathe ins de when canaries -asp
md small dogs pant, the roof IL the saving
and restoring agent Never Is an evening In
New York So sitting that breath from the
bay may not b. eau hit on the roof, and tho
heated b, d. gradually cooled to an endur-
able trmp'ratura
ASIDE from the physical comfort to he
found on the roofs OF this great city,
an exhi. i.ar1tIon of spirit is to be had there.
The altitude gives n ttnge Of strength and
Iower to the most dc>ponlent The vcIa-
tions. rerpexlt es and even the sorrows OF
the lower worll slip away as the eye rests
upon the roofs that shut them cut Of sight
The same feeling comes as when one stands
on a high mountain and looks down In 10 the
far off valley ani wonders that its affairs
and events could ever have the power 10 hurt
or PIE .se We shall know this feeling better,
fancy. In that day when We stanI on the
heights OF immortality and look back over
the long, hari road we now call life. Per
Ill l.
We ever thou -ht the way weary and difficult
Perhaps We shall then SEQ that We wer,
gently led.
The roofs of New York ara the home door
yards The servants lake the rugs and
carpets there to b. shaken Tue clothes are
hung there To dry. The blankets AMI pillows
are summed there The domestic economy
revea ; itself there In various ways In the
fiat buildings or apartment houses, the roofs
nre divided If into little yards, well fur
n shed with a nppurtenances for the lsun-
dress whom she reaches the point where air
and sunshine are needed TO finish her work
Of publication Eacu family has its day to
ii | the roof space with its linen In the
evening its promena ling capacity is free To
all who want to make u,e OF it
Now here is youth and his sweetheart
oAt ilfts III u NbpN iIiN OAI eAAt upper iOOI
Augustus and she slip away from the family
up the narrow hack stairs, which In all nice
apartment houses are kept as clean pin
by the tanitor and his assistants There
they sit and talk and plan. and exchange
silly terms Of enlearment They have some
thing worth looking at, too as the night
comes on. The stars make glorious illu-
mination overhead; the moon. perchance
looks down and Smi.es in cold splendor, and
the thousands and thousands Of lights Of the
city sparkle and dance around them like
monstr Gus jewels Here and there a great
white star among the counties yellow ones
marks some park or great hotel, with its
many andled electric light To the west
The beautiful H idson-or North river as
New Workers will call it-glimmerS like a
,haet of fame lighted by the boats that
glide on 1t like great water birds. an by the
lights of the two great cities and tho many
towns that line its banks And the
long line of beautiful white lights
that stretChe, eastward from the southeast
corner Of the city That is the great Brook
lyn bridge The waters of Eat river that
flow beneath it are never dark 1t, too re-
fi,cts the Ii Shts Of two great cities, AMI Ovsr
its wide surface, on summer evenings, boats
uhlaz" with light and merry with music
move hither and yon