The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-18
CHICAGO MAN IN BOSTON.
HE Tells or THE IN NDBsG CTTY"
md ITS "HIGHER LIFE"
Got Carried Into the Place by Mistake, hut
Now Goes Their. as Often IA lie Can for
C~ulture-Traits of the T~own-snnborn's
Handbag Round Of Mental Exercises.

Culture-Traits of the T~own-sanborn's
Handbag Round of Mental Exercises.
Boston March fl will always be Hand
bag Boston, the greatest American headquarters
for people with peculiar ways" says a Chicago
man who Is az the Parker HOUSE for a few days.
/ expect. asa bristle BEARDED Chicsgoan, that
is not over loyal T. my Western home to confess
IL but the fact is I've got so ] like this old maid
town. | can have more genuine relaxation and
Instructive pleasure in poking around, OF an eve
nlug, among your electric COW paths end mag
uptlrrnt alleys than | should in a years otten'
dance OF Chicago'S vaudeville shows. II took
me- some time 10 master the science Of enjoying
myself in Boston, but, as We say in Chicago liter
AIRY circles, I've got II down pat now. You see
! represent a big tex, book publishing house in
the West and for the past few years have made
regular stops here, some Of them quite extended,
| used 10 think | would about as soon be buried
alive as TO think Of putting IN a week in Boston
I'd always take in New York State and wind up
with Gotham.
In fact, my first visit TO Boston was the result
Of accident. I'd come on toward Springfield
and about an hour and a half before we were due
there. I fcll in with an agreeable fellow travel ing
man. lie was a rafting good chap ard he had
along with him some a. good "a fsapanlla water
as | ever drank. We told lies to one another,
you know the kind. just simple ordinary Travelling
mems lies and hit up the bug juice pretty freely.
Then wa tuld more lies and tapped II again,
My friend was II regular slayer. He had those
small nsly eyps, the kind that go with the man
who when he orders n whlshey always says.
Gimme u little syrup, Jake Well, we talked
and tanked and tanked and talked until I'm
hanged II / wasn't pretty well patalyzed.
That Is about as far as | can femembef my
experience at that stage OF the game. l pmem
Der that | felt someone shaking me- and calling
End Of the route! Wake up Say, wake up
When ! did. the brakeman was there laughing
az me. Where the dickens are We | asked.
My head felt as big's a barrel. Boston said
he. Well by the .Ichosophatsl II l hadn't gone
to sleep and been carried clear III Rough 70 the Hub.
] felt for my watch. OF course, il was gone, lust
as il should have been. | looked Tor my valise
That was gone, just rs it should have gone, when
q man hadn't shown any moro SIND Than I had in
letting a FISH. gilled Cape Cod YANKEE 20 cheedully
do me. had some long green sewn in the waist
band 81 my boomers. So finally LANDED IA a
! room her, ~ the Parker. 81 Cou use, you CaI
imagine how | iii me full oi wind ana Chicago
to b. took IN and slowed hike that | 9 " ~ bed
and slnp' IN lat She ~ <. morning which vas
a Sunday.
Il threw a bag breakfast into M and ft.t some
better. though | was stll mad ! thought Ia
go out for some air. | got 10 Gne door and ugh
twas fugry, a regular Down Fast fog. bur | lclt
In Just that mood that " il had required q lantern
I'd have gone for my stroll Well, al about every
visit 7 have since made TO Boston ! have tiled 10
find out whercit was thatlgotlost lhad thought
I'd like TO take a s1uint at Faneuil Hall. kept
twisting and turning, but blessed II ] could nail
the hal. ] finally sat down in q stairway in some
one ~ those blind alleys Of the north end and lei
go my soul. DO you know | think cussing was
invented for iust such emergencies, and | took a
post graduate course right there. | then got up
aud went 10 ~plodding again. l finally bumped
into one Of your cultured policemen, who found
a cab for me and | got back 10 The hotel
As | had begun on Boston. | thought l might
as well so 10 the limit, so | made II a point 10 pay
another visit in a few months and l have kept
repeating them until now | can follow a trail here
as readily as your oldes, inhabitsnt | think
the trouble with most outsiders in visiting Boston
IS that they are not on, SO 10 speak. to the right
lay, and II one ism I on, why, it's no use to Try 70
have a live time here.
Now, in order to properly mingls in Boston
one wants 70 belong TO the higher life. J. don't
know exactly what the higher life is, but I'm II,
Oh. yes, I'm the hottest high flyer that perambu-
lstes And you can't belong. 10 the higher life
unless you carry q handbag Don't forget that.
Il was out on Washington street Yesterday, and
in front Of Flske book store ! saw Brother Frank
SanDom, the Concord philosopher well, maybe
You wouidn I call him a philosopher exactly,
but he writes things, about A. Bronson Alcott,
80 that the public can never come 10 understand
what Alcoit meant You know il a man says
things that people can. understand, that isn't
philosophy; not on your life,
We'll. Frank Sarbon, tie Concordance that's
H. that : bciter..he came poklng along, aud he
had a handbag mat was a buster II was Of green
cloth, say, two and u half feet long and 3 couple
more III width. lie rad II Just stuffed with news.
papers and MANUSCRIPTS until was rounded out
10 a size larger thnn one Of the old-fashioned bushel
baskets lie carried II, too, Just as you would n
basket, namely, by grabbing It by, one edge 50
that 1t sort Of cantcd As he passed he looked IL
palr. don't wonder he did, for with a sanguluary
handbag like that, suppose he had suddenly De-
como imbuei with designs on poor Fishes cooks.
Can You see the finish?
Il stood at the corner Of Washington and ter
streets for nm hour and counted the handbags
There were $40 that passed There's no use
arguing that point, Boston lays Chicago cold
whom II comes 10 culture. There was a lady
told me, the other day, On learning that I was
rom Chicago, that one had to absorb culture, and
that tler'iurel must not lose hope for my city,
since it would all come in time
at hi' m" pretty hard, OF course, for II was by
absorption hat | LOST my w9,ch and valise On
itisa fact thatevidence Of sducation sto be found
al every hand here
u was out in tie South End last night and
stepped into n night lunch wagon. The pro
prletur Ma, I discovered, n gradual to OF Dublin
tnlvrrr;y To-day | found an Old man acunS
as n waiter in . fremont street hNShery who will
hand your coffee 10 you IN French, German or
RuS.lIu, Jnst ~ yuu prefer.
4 ran aCrH-, Il t"rdv waIt on the common. He
talked delightfully."- On historic Boston, recited
wltn considerable dramatic power portions Of
Walt Whitman and hi me for a quarter to get
his linen a. be called il, 'Out uf the Clutch ~ q
yellow Oriental And education, you know,
makes one 80 dead FOXY in the use Of words For
use that Word here IN Boston Never. It's North
Inion station and Southern Terminal station
aud 50 on Why lS II? Merely the r1nft that
education gives In nIne cases out Of ten o
man IN using the word depot in ordinary con
ycrsaiIun can't remember. on tie spur Of the
moment, whether It's depot 'depowe,' 'deppo.'
'dayp,t or 'dlppo' Therefore. az a willy bean
eater, whht does lie do Why, calls II station
of course on, educatinn's n great thing"
+ usually follow y regular programme in taking
my culture began on Sunday, having Just
got IN saturday evening, with filling MP on
'ChrStiHn SclcuCC' in tie forenoon, slowed AWAY
a good liuurr and set out for thensophy in the
afternoon In the evening, | fell on the Wash
lnrtun a're't splrtUuhStS' meetings. Mon
Ily forenoon | wHs looking after my business,
but found time todrop IA NJ noon at the Park Street
church and lot Joseph cook p,ychologize me
.Iue's Numbering rhetoric helped nv 10 put in
sorlo ypcd hIa!r"'e h,kS IN The afternoon In
thr aycu,1-. I heard o lertnT- on the Advance
oi Am"ilorNu"n.
That stayed by me- until Tuesday night when
went N'u mn acquaintance 70 a modern
thought club Wednesday, | faced an attack
NJ literary The club met NJ a private house
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