The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-04-03
BosTON,s TYPICAL CITIZEN.
He Follows Fixed and Regular
Schedule from Birth to Death.

schedule from Birth 10 Death
New York Mail and Express.
1t is the custom of those who do not live
in Boston to regard the Hub and those who
do live in it with humorous tolerance The
typical BCstCnian is publicly supposed to
habltually wear spectacles, subsist wholly
with archaic forms of speech and, because
he pronounceS the "a broad, to be pos
Not one of these suppositions is correct.
The typical Boston man differs only in one
respect from those who hail from other
cities. The Bostonian is inSular to the core.
He judges the universe from the standpoint
of his bringing up, and the fact that his
standpoint exists only in Boston bothers
him not at all.
Boston is so geographically situated that
the tide of commercial travel does not pass
through 1t. No one goes to Boston in order
to get anywhere except to Boston, and, as
result, the average BoStonian is brought
little in contact with the outside world.
There exist in Boston young men and W Vtal,
further from the city than Cape Cod, and
never will go further.
The career of a young Bostonian is
planned for him in advance. At the age of
ten he goes to Miss Hannah Adams, s school,
on Chestnut street; at the age Of fifteen he
goes to Mr.. Hopkinsons school,, also on
Chestnut street, and at nineteen he enters
Harvard College, where he. joins either the
Porcelain or the A. ID: Club. After gradua-
principal capitals of Europe, glancing casu-
ally at the stock sights and comparing them
home as quickly as he possibly can In the
meantime his way has been blazed, and he
goes at once either into the office of brok-
er or G. real estate dealer. i4e
Certain forms of commercial occupation
are open to him and others are not. For
example, coal is permissible. while leather
now dead, never spoke to a leather mer-
chant and always left the room when one
entered. In the meantime the young man
has Joined the Somerset and the Country
clubs He then marries girl, needless to
say, of some good old Boston family"
and this girl he has usually known from
infancy. He has danced with her at the
Friday afternoon" class at Papantlc, ana
together they have climbed the rocks at
Nahant in search of the mythical FAIRY
FOOD which is supposed to exist there and
together, then, thfs young couple settle
down to live on the sunny side of either
Beacon street or Commonwealth avenue
Mark the sunny side. Doubtless some very
worthy persons live on the shady side Of
thorough-going BostonanA always chooses
the sunny side and leaves the shady side
to be inhabited by New Workers and that
class of people, as an elderly maiden lady
in Boston once put it. With matrimony the
orderly existence of the true Bostonlan con-
tinues upon it's well-ordered way; he gets
up every morning at s o'clock, breakfasts
at half past, reading the while the BoSton
Advertiser. At 8 he walks up Beacon Hill,
meeting and gathering with him as he goes
friends who lead exactly the same Well
regulated life that he does. The O'CLOCK
march of the business men or BoSton up
Beacon Hill is a feature OF the cltys daily
At / o'clock they all go to luncheon at
the Exchange Club, Whisn, ike the S Pns
ladies' dining room, where the feminine rel
atives of the members can lunch ana olne
and charge the bill to the members. Al
4 o'clock all the business offices are desert
ed and the business man goes to MS cluD,
where he stays till $50, meantime drinking
two Martin cocktails made very dry; never
more than two.
At ESQ. in company with the same men
with whom he walked up Beacon Hill IN
the morning, he walks down Beacon Hill at
night. At Z o'clock he dimes. From till
10 he reads the Transcript and tells MS
wife what rot this war talk is. AT 1890 he
takes nightcap of whisky; at IL o clock ne
On the 10th of May the true Bostonian
moves himself and his belongings to Bever-
all well-to-do Bostonians always move out
of town on the 18th day of April in order to
dodge taxes No one ever did.
Beverly has been invaded more or less by
but Nahant retains its Boston purity.
The late Thomas Appleton We'll named it
Nahant at o'clock every morning, and at
o'clock the true BoStonian, in company
with the same men with whom he has
walked up and down Beacon Hill all winter.
takes the steamer and plays hearts in the
smoking room for an hour. At o'clock he
takes the same steamer and plays whist
with the same men Cor an hour. Why hearts
in the morning and whist in the afternoon
has never been explained
The true Bostonian seldom goes out in
the evening either in the city or the coun-
~. In Beverly he can't go out even if he
wishes to. The distances are so great that
horses are necessary and the avenues are
horses are impossible. But the true B0s-
tonian does not go out at night. Every now
and then ne does 60 , nms. ana whs .I, does
related OF q very well-knOWn and very