The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-04-23
SUBURBAN MAN'STWOWAYS
ONE TRAIL FOR VISITORS AND ONE.
FOR CATCHING TRAINS.

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supurpanites area rather amusing iot any.
way thouehttuliy remarked Mr. fincherhAs
OF homeiike Harlem 10 MS iriend Mr.. Zen.
WeeKlypohes. also OF tnat locailty' astney STOOD
up iuAuriousiy III an eie'ateo express tram
their way 10 thelr coy mats AFTER business
hours. the other evening. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
has TWO distinct routes which ne may take Dee
tween the railroad station ana MS cheerless
little .paymen cottage One. the
longer OF the two. leads down the wide. main
grocery and the meat market. ana ia com nossd
OF intermittent stretches OF irregular flag
stones. oyster-shells. crushed stone and ashes.
1T is up this elaborate pathway that the
proud suouroanite leisureiy guides one OF US
fat folks from the city of a Saturday afternoon
~ us y ans "'tvn.,ou " ms u
that DIT OF scenery ana the dinerent trees ana
heamties ~ th, n,ace and that nj Tho s,ma tir.
-. man d,rsrt a'n ninds nns ~ 49, ,ho lii
seem five minutes long instead OF twenty or
thirty minutes. which would come nearer the
mark. oh. I've got a suburban friend. a Mr..
Isolate. who lives out at Lonelyville-'lovely
thing or two about the suburbsl
18Th Then there lis is the mes short cut; THIS leads
oorue Vae"n. o'e pi'eeo VI ueieie' cohuehse"
milk and tomato cans. COW pastures; swamps-
cally terms tbem-oyer two or three fence.
whom YOU reach the track the station IA still
more op than one sI hundred l"T et1y Yards s' distant, n, : and no vo"
kick at the length Of the longer walk. your
euoutoah 'rleno VIZ ,e' you Una. .here 10"
much shorter way. which ne takes when he Is
. ui, o or IN a na Sabsm 10 eaten a a n bus no
WI SMn .h,a 49, y. u, 81 .na' you may nese.
thas m n%ss sag You ia are i in Fl fad Pbs better #; "a Spf Il ' Ss
'"e + ia ST time n1', Sa ss out Se hn lntFligdiHfiI VISIT.
ing the ~lsolates. the coffee, happened TO be too
not ioT US to take at a single gulp at breakfast.
as Is MI, isolate,s regular custom. and this 80
statioP II we " to catch his train iI and be
to my patent leather shoes and pearl-ceiored
Blu It seemed that Isolate had not missed
that particular train one morning for six or
urban reason or other; that he would be ever;
d tast so q tEat hG @o q ana co aaesIsd II d ee sh fsEs
city people into their confidence; but / have
Reen with Nr. lsolate enough TO conclude from
dropped now and then, that he and his COM
muter friends vie with each other IN never
missing certain trains to and from the city.
tickets when they meet at our quiek-lpneh or
T Tban tbe r=esfan M u, Wb sns city tiyk at lunch shnn tine me;
e 3 pay Tor the 'df ,Gs one, and beans and:
holder has repeatedly, missed, his, usual
train and d, had h ticket punched by the con.
highest score in this idiotic game is to have
only " oluerent Styles 81 runch holes IN ones
t tiGfis'M and th deo% oth bss f GSnaq tSe cc Sn ths mo orr tRs
evening train; me very highest possible
fss oie in c On nsst eo% Gnis 4 s5ns' tic 5'T!' q Of s Psps q
able to catch the train back at night which Il
one takes in the morning; believe TINT takes
The whole Iuiek,ln a. ~ oil , or Are y ute eears9
secrets are e%araed wen: ..|1. -.
tanned a beautiful uniform tattoo pattern OF
s = and railroad spiReishapsd punch, holes
heart or dagger or square or crescent shared
nnnch mole IN i as yet 70 mar the score; Any
NAE mbbc;e III T WonId thin ino Of % Se1y a s' Sea nnt.1ioieS
trousers IN the suburbs, ~ which thsI we're
an onenfe no ha ant ga anG instead OF GUT go
ness men. he hustled me through the Kitchen.
tha hncL a an "a T tPpds t6 6t ms cottage: ,toWaa
at 4 !saH ha1 nm .oross = ton..o,a ao,a vii.
'S '.,H -" 1892 '"A' 49,. "ASA
SOFT. muddy. narrow ploughed-up stretches on
Il that looked as though they were to be;or had
been, planted with potatoes or corn. l asked
him II we wouldn't get shot at Tor tramping
over the owners garden. hut ne witheringly
informed me that those soft stretches OF mud
were not truck gardens. put beautiful wide
streets a1a avenues. and ne called my atten.
signs painted On them which read: swamp
ment street &c.
wei, there's one good .hinG about those
IDIOT cheerlully exclaimed. as sank over the
Tops OF them IN one o. the beautllul avenues
they must keep your ieet dry. Ike ru6bersI
suppose that's why you wear them, Now. we
are al right! ne aided. elatedly: we've got .
sideWaik most OF the rest OF me way
We had reached a sumach thlGket and bog
ana taken 70 Q shaRy line Of, boards. supported
at their ends by stones and OF mud
and swamp grass maj nonody put a confirmed
human beings. As Isolate and ! ran from
one noarn 10 nnotner u would sag IN
steadlly under our weight ana squlrt muddy
water IN every direction and W our trousers
legs tnrongl inc cracks ana khotholes; be-
| fora We nAn ROnN IDftv 1ppt II haI made m "