The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-13
SOLID PHILADELPHIA.
Bah LIKES TIE QUAKER CITY's
SUBSTANTIAL RESIDENTS.

Her Charming Business Men and
LeisureIy Lunchers-The Comforta-
BILE Homes of Mr. AIillioneire's
Employees - The Philadelphia Wo-
mans Back is Blissfully Rigid.
wholesome Cookery in william
PENIS City-Eet Properly and You
Can't Be Immorsl-Bap Defends the
Babies - What Practical People
Should Bat-Bab Wont Wear Her
"Reformer" Sisters Hideous Under
wear.
CCoDuf0htI
NEW York, Nov. IA like to 60 over to
Philadelphia, because every time I do l be-
come more and more convinced that the
reason people live longer there is because
they have more time to do it in. This
sounds little milky, but it isn't. l devoted
two whole days to watching the business
men IN Philadelphia, and came to the con-
clusion that their methods were altogether
charming. In most of the big cities man
careers out to his luncheon, gobbles up
sandwich, washes it down with drink,
goes back to his office, has indigestion, and
10 bitterly cross all the afternoon.
HOW PHILADELPHIANs LIVE.
phia. About O'Clock man gets up slowly.
puts on his top coat and hat, strolls leis-
urely to his favorlte resort joins two or
three other friends, consumes an hour and
half in eating, goes back to his office at
peace with all mankind and prepared to
raise the wages of tue office boy. Men get
rich in Philadelphia, but they make haste
slowly. l think that is the secret of success
In life for then you get the best Of every
thing-you have time to linger over the
heart OF the celery, and to appreciate the
delightful gurgle-gurgle of the Burgundy.
A genial glow oveispreads the face in time,
and the Philadelphia millionaire is pleas
ing in manner and anecdotal in oonversa-
ton. He is interested in births, deaths
and marriages people do get married
in Philadelphia. And his local pride is ex-
quisite.
He builds rows Of houses for his EN-.
ployes-that is one fault we have to find
with him. They are what might be called
'swEET LITTLE HOUsEsl"
Each is of beautiful red brick, with a nice
white tombstone step and an extension made
of frame, which is a bath room, and this in
variably has a lace curtain at the window
These houses are IN blocks. | am not going
to make the old objection that people living
in houses SO much alike would not know
which was theirs and which was not, but
em going to say that | should think they
would all get to be alike That Mrs Smith
would be able TO say, Mrs. Brown is sitting
in the front parlOr rocking, now, the bell
has rung, she has gone out into the dining
room for tea; now some company has come
and they have taken them up to the front
room to take off their b0nnets: DOW they
have come downstairs again, and they are
sitting in the parlor talking and the tYo
Smith boys are taking a bath! Gracious |
goodness If l lived ia block like that, | |
would use the parlor for the Kitchen; |
would sleep in the dining room, have the |
dining room upstairs and paint the steps
red. If were like everybody else I should |
feel like tin Of beef, as if 1 ought to be
sold by the dozen
Can't you imagine how the unfortunate
housed In this way would put an arm chair
IN one corner and q rocking chair in the
other, sofa in the middle facing the mantel
stiff chair with knit tidy on 10 by the
window, and then have "God Bless Our
Home" over the shelf! That is the great
wrong that the Philadephian millionaire
does. Even people who are not milionaires
want houses that do not duplicate their
neighbors; then it is possible for them to |
live originally, to make homes and not |
habitations. Don't You agree with mel |
Mankind, embracing womanhood, is a con- |
Trajectory animal, and it does not want to |
live, breathe and have its being after the
manner OF the people above or below it.
PHILADELPHIA's FEMININE BACKS.
Another funny thing in Philadelphia is
the feminine back 1t is straight up and
down. It never swerves. | watched
it with esgerness for two hours as it pro-
ceeded up aud down Chestnut street, and
the only one | saw that curved was not ex-
clusively PhiladelphiaD-it had been edu-
Gated in New York and married a western
man. l don't know whether this back is
straight from moral or mental stand
point-possiblY IL is a combine
1t is not beautiful but it has
apeculiar fascination. The western and the
southern backs soften and sway and lend
themselves to times and occasions; the New
York back IS always up to date and suits
itself to frocKs. If it is a tailor-made il
swaggers, If it is an empire it falls in an
easy sort Of way, if it is classical it is very
straight, but it is a movable bach. Gown
ing, however, has no influence over the
Philadelphia back 1t is blissfuy rigid,
and will sit erect in front OF a shop counter
and say,
ELIZABETH, YOU MAY TALK
for one hour about the other material being
more becoming to me, but this will not
fade, and therefore select itl' Amt that
back for yOus
Another type Of it was seen in a TOW shop.
accompanied by small and beautiful boy,
A New York woman, who is bit of ID fool,
exclaimed; " What a lovely child" The
back looked around, and there was a glare
that meant cold winter in the eyes attached
he could choose any toy which would edu-
cate him, but that he could not have one
that was merely silly. Poor little chapl
lie was feeling the Influence Of the
back. Between you and me | think
that have now discovered that
while somebody says OF a southern
or western man that "he is the most de-
voted husband in the world" the same
somebody in speaking of a PHILADELPHIA
husband would say that he was good. .
young woman who doesn't reverence any,
thing, and who wasn't even downed by the
backbone, said the Philadelphia women
looked as if they swallowed an extra dose
OF ramrod tea. l couldn't do this | could
only sigh. But then l am an impressionable
creature, and am moved TO joy or gladness
by the people around me.
GOOD COOKING IS APPRECIATED.
But the Philadelphia cooking-wen,
that's another thing. ] have a vague idea
that the cooks are trying to soften the
backbone by catering to the desires of the
flesh. Anyhow, they can devil crabs better
There than any place l have ever been, and
II you only know where to 20, you can get
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