Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-02-14
FRESH FROM BOSTON.
Brief Mention OF Boston Notions Law
and Customs.

and Customs
Especial Curyrs, ond nsel
PosToN, F.r. I0-Thc mo popuirr clergy
man now in Bos,ol is one re,enI' tried TO
fragrant breach Of morality aul doubtful.
acquitted The details were only fit to be
published in the Bos OF dali papsrS ara
soread broadcast before Boston children.
who are carefully guarde from dime novels
and all 'psrnicious literatura.' Boston
motive in going To this church Is rot sc
much to hesr the gospel as to see the pre-,
sumed sinner We're Bo ton positive he wa
guiltiess it would not go round the corner &c
hear him Its the doubt to the matter
that makes tie young AMI handsome minis,
ter interesting AMI causes him 10 draw.
Truth in this town does not always stand
upon its intrinsic meritS IL needs sensa-
tional posters AMI highly coiored "scarle,
letters" to develop al intere { ip it.
Boston does not sell liquor by the glass
after II O'Clock at night This is the source
I'm Boston, of the remark or adage concern
ing the man who came at the eleventh hour
The man who comes to the Bottom saloon at
the eleventh hour cannot get his whisky,
save that he is led in at the back door and
drinks it sitting down in stall The same
regulation applies to Sundays There is no
getting around the law in Boston. But you
can get over il This restriction conduces to
the outdoor morality Of the Boston Sunday,
and obliges some worthy citizens TO get
drunk on prescriptions put up at drug stores.
The old Boston graveyards are now all
fenced in and the eminent dead advertised
on iron p.ates outside They seem to sleep
well, and the biographies on some Of the
I'D "a \ fha in rood
ness Of those below do not nor cannot now
exist in this degenerate aga Most OF them,
directly or inferentially, are promised per-
manent positions In the mansions of the
Just Yet the expression of their skulls, as
chiseled by the old-time tombstc-., artists,
do not indicate happy states of mind
The chief pleasure OF a select Boston
theatre or opera audience is TO applaud at
the right time and in the most appreciative
place. Culture here Is cold, critical and
calculating IL Is also rapid and compre-
hensive in its survey of things. At the
Boston Art club. for instance, connoisseurs
sweep past pictures at the rate Of three Q
minute and take in the artists labor Of
months In ten seconds Life Is as feeting in
Boston as elsewhere, and time as valuable
Boston is great on beans and fish balls, but
fails miseraoly on oysters The average
Bo ton stew Gems to be made by milking
the COW on plate Of raw oysters. But they
give you half a peck OF crackers besides
Still. crackers are not oysters
Bostop's shopping streets are so narrow
that when you're on the sidewalk you're in
the guitar half the time The women don't
mind it Many OF them wear rubber boots
and are amphib. GUS On the corners Of
Temple and Washington or Winter and
Washington the congeries Of shopping
females in the afternoon is startling in its
effects and results. Getting into the turmoil
Is getting in,o the involuntary embrace of
struggling clusters Of the New England
femininity.
Five-cent stores here are on the increase.
The clerks are all children. some in age
not ranking much above babies. 1t looks as
If the poorer class put their infants out to
dry nurse by day in these establishments as
weIl as to do their part in making both ends
meet at home. You can at these commercial
cribs furnish house with crockery and
cooking utensils on the five cent basis. The
system will probably soon extend to wear
ing apparel, and involve five cent shirts and
pantaloons
This town is weary with education and
over study. One-fourth of its children wear
spectacles Eyes are of little consideration
SO that the Boston memory is crammed with
hard facts and angular figures oculists
thrive here Education and oculism go
hand in hand You can get any dis
ease of the eye you want for
IS, though your sight be as sharp
as the eagles The Boston oculist
is a man of ceremony and procrastination.
It takes him a week to find out what is
really the matter with your ewes That in
wolves three visits and three consequent ex-
aniirations at IS each Wher he has found
out something sufficiently awful, terrifying
and complicated, he will curs you for $500,
or have a pair of s25 spectacles made to
order for you know of enc such patient
with one such pair of glasses, who can't see
anything through them
Boston Is the head center for the rundown
and polish of doctors. Some call them mag
nstic healersLn They dose their patients with
s'elbow grease 4 visit one occasionally,
and often find him coming from bis studio
In his shirt sleeves and barred arms quite ex-
hausted after having planned down a patient.
The theory is that the doctor or doctress Is
q reservoir Of vital fluid, and that he rubs it
into the patient IL is an Improvement on
piils-particularly distasteful pills-and is
rapidly undermining doctors, drug stores
and medicine factories.
PRENTICE MuLFoRD.