The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-24

U1e 1aSnr0nable patronage OF Elh1lddel-
phfans and Baltimoreans. But life at
Na.hanlt was simply THAT of Boston in
the country and was totally u1linviting
Ito the visitor from any other city.
Those who wanted variety had to seek
it elsewhere. No doubt this was high
ly satisfactory to the Bostonians, who
are as clanllish as the English, whom
they like so much ito copy and be taken
fer. 1T has always been a source of
wonder to visitors from that part OF
the world outside of Boston ITO OBJ
Iisarve the perfect Gontenitment that
Bostonians enjoy when aSsociating
with each other. They are apparently
disturbed by no desire to mingle with
outsiders. In this way their thoug
are kept pure and their opinions Tree
from contamination.
Those who have created and formed
and been at the head of the best socie-
ty of Boston during the past fifty years
are persons who have endowed Har-
ward and its library or similar instttu-
tons For the Bostonian has been
brought up with a very commendabe
reverence for learning and to feel that
life as mapped out for him by his par
ents and grandparents, who no doubt
spent much of their time in the pur-
which must be adopted and carried out
to the letter. To accomplish this az
fords them the deepest satisfaction.
When, under the stress of great emer-
gency, they leave Boston, all that they
find strange and unusual in other cities
they accept and enjoy much as a traV-
eler who adapts himself to the strange
customs and unusual methods of a half
civilized people. The proprieties of life
they observe strictly; the comforts they
enjoy with the same spirit of abandon
assumed by a man walking through
park reading signs which say keep
off the grass
BOSTONIANS IN NEW YORK.
1t has often been remarked that where
as one often sees the names pf people
from Chicago and other cities among
those who have attended entertain
ments in New York fashionable life,
the names Of Boston people are seldom
encountered, though Boston is COM
paratively near neighbor. This is SIM
ply because the fashionable life Of Bos-
tor is 50 absolutely different from that
of New York, tfa.e the two are quite in
compatible. I have often pictured to
myself the visits of 4 thorouShgoing
New York society man 70 the swell cir
cles Of the Hub, and have endeavored
to imagine what must be his feelings
vnan ST rounded ~ So alu3a culture
ana learning.
the Boston society young man who
comes to New York and enters fashion
able life here. 1t is. but natural to sup
pose that he would regard himself as
somewhat out of place when sur
rounded by great luxury and brilliancy.
1t is for this reason, | take it, that we
see so little Of our good Boston friends
in the fashionable life of New York
city. The same reason does not apply
to visitors of other cities. Chicago,
have already shown though rather new
to fashionable life, is capable of a
great deal and will one day reach a
state far in advance of that which it
at present enjoys, though l cannot say
that it will ever be on an equal plane
with the fashionable life of the city.
Boston, however, is what it has always
been and what it always will be-thor-
oughly respectable and in many ways
deserving of our praise, but never
likely to do anything which it will re-
greet.
AS to New York, we can but ex-
claim: Shades of our grandmothersI
What would they say if they could see
their granddaughters who are filling
their places at the present day. The
repose, the elegance, the quiet deemed
so essential for great lady have been
consigned to oblivion and in their
places have been substituted dash, eX-
element, boundless liberty
In the age in which we live time fol-
lows us so closely that to go slowly
would cause us to be left behind. The
fashionable American woman, like the
humming- bird, is never seen but on the
wing. Every hour of the day and even
ing is portioned off to some amusement
How she stands the pace must be
marvel to Bostonians, for she is liter
ally on a go all the time whereas in
Europe If girl goes out two or three
evenings in a week she thinks she is
enjoying great gayety When the So
cial season opens unless a fashionable
woman attends the opera three times a
week, dimes out seven days in the week.
lunches daily at one house or another
and goes nightly to a ball or dance. she
is losing her time.-Ward McAllister in
New York World.