The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-02

were, from flower to flower. gathering
only the sweetest nectar.
The only real sin that Boston girls are
guilty OF, in my estimation. is inquisitlve-
ness regarding their neighbours. In Bos-
ton your neighbor can tell you more
about your fam ly affairs than you know
you .self.
When a stranger takes up his or her
abode in any community in Boston I'M
mediately the tongues commence to wag.
The newcomers are puzzle, source OF
speculation as to who and what they are,
where they came from, who knows them,
etc. These are lew of the questions that
Bostoniaps demand satisfactory answer
to before stranger is treated even cour-
teou.ly. Now this is what our Western
brothers and sisters term our frosty air.
You must kindly bear in mind the fact
that these traits in our character are
hereditary. We cannot get outside OF
them and live in Boston. l thought that
l was remarkably broad-minded until L
came to San Francisco and found that l
had merely been ''existing" all this time.
There is such a vast difference in the
meaning of these two words "e1isting
anu AAs iuSs e.
fear when my good Christian Endeavor
friends arrive from Boston they will hold
their hands up. in holy horror to see the
demure, retiring Puritan maiden changed
into full-fedged Californian. That is to
say, l will appear to them full-fedged
Californian. There are q few California
traits that I refuse absolutely to acquire
You mustn't ask mo what tney are.
Many disconnected spirit will return to
Boston among the Christian Endeavorers
having tasted of the free and easy life led
by the San Franci>cans, for in this City is
represented every nationality on the globe.
except those living within the Arctic
Circle.
Now when one stops to consider. one
agrees that human nature is the same the
world over; environment being the infiu-
ence which determines the progress OF viz
tue or vice. 1t so happened that the envir-
onment of Boston was more Of temperate
than a wild nature, hence her high stand
ard of morality; but let me assure you
that Boston admires San Francisco for her
independent standard of m orality, though
she does not often venture to say so in
public.
Dear old BostonI Can you forgive me
for my derogative remarks. but, oh, you
are so far behind the times! Why won't
you wake up and start Mind Broadening
Society so that when 1900 comes in all
your old prosaic Puritanical dogmas will
have tall shrubbery growing over their
graves.
San Franchises streets are wide and
in the business section well lighted,
but oh! the Street-paving Department
should blush when it looks at these
cobblestones. Perhaps you don't have a
street-paving department under your City
government. How much more beneficial
to the City it would have been to have set
the unemployed to work at renovating
the paving of the streets rather than at
building a driveway that only the wealthy
class will enjoy. Necessities first and
luxuries afterward. Certainly repaving
the streets is necessity.
The Street-pavlng Department Of Bos-
ton should be proud Of its work, for it is
admitted by allvisitors that Boston is one
of the best paved cities in the United
States.
admit that the streets in Boston are
mere alleys (as tar as width goes) COM
pared with those of other large cities, but
we have as handsome buildings as one
could wish to see. The diminutveness
the buildings in San Francisco is urpris-
ing to me. They are almost all suchf
dingy affairs. The new buildings are
very fine structures, and the houses, most
of which are built Of wood, are also very
fine.
1t is really hard to believe that they are
wooden. But the generals air of excel
lence is not so marked here. Your park
is far ahead Of Central Park IN New York,
and the latter is considered the finest in
tie United States. OF course the great
advantage California has over the East is
that the grass and most of the trees and
shrubs are green the year round.
A Boston GIRL.