Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-03-20

suces of crannied walls Who can
love department store huge tower
ing warehouse of iron and stopa
crammed with commodities from tna
tour quarters OF the globe. as Charles
Lamb loved the little dingy shops at
Paternoster Row and st. Paurs
,hurchyard? Hugeness, a vast na-
Sildering commercialism. has mn.
rooted the little shady hooks OF tae
affections.
New York had once a few such
places which the brutal foot OF ad-
vancement had trampled out. Those
not yet old can scarcely find a
characteristic building or nook OF
their childhood and early youth lert
standing. The monster skyscraper.
the great shop, the gigantic hotel ana
clubhouse, have extinguished the
little sheltered spots OF the past.
Once there were few shady places
even in busy streets where old horse
chestnuts blossomed in spring. | re-
member rows of them in thorough
fares where it was a pleasure to
saunter on warm day. Lower f1ttn
avenue. opening out OF Washington
Square, was almost ,uyllic. There
were plenty of tiny yards and bits CT
garden ground in the old time. where
the scent v lilacs and syringas came
over the wall. and the bright faces of
Jumps and crocuses peeped through
the paiings. There were grassy
spaces. and the dignity and simplicity
OF old houses, looking honest. staid.
and respectable. Men OF leisure.
swinging canes and walking beside
pretty girls. strolled under the trees
on mild spring evenings. A sense of
charm and quietude and romance
fingered about these purlieus. Many
such hooks existed then which have
since been completely swept away.
No horse-chestnuts blossom by cot
tage gates in these days. A IA to 20
! story building rises where they once
grew. acre is no longer the charm
of leisure. culture. and refinement
visible about old houses that seemed
to bear the impress OF ong-establish-
ed responsibility. Some that still
linger are tottering and decrepit, and
have been degraded to the baser uses
of trade. There is no place In the
world so weign.,- down with brick,
stone. iron steel, and mortar as this
mighty monster developed out OF the
little old Knickerbocker town.
The tentacles of those who loved
1t before acute evolution had set In
now hang in air. It's new aspects are
| foreign To them. They are appalled,
by its phenomenal growth which has
! left some OF them far behind in tho
race Their affections have "A starved
and sickly aspect, as II transplanted
against their will to ungenial soil.
| Five times as large and 20 times as
enterprising as the place they once
knew, they still cannot love it. They
have grown strange In their old
home. A Rip Van Wrinkle sleep of a
year or two finds them in new
world The annexed parts-and
| some Of them are very beautiful
have not grown familiar In time
they will take on scmthing of age
and neighborliness. but the old
citizen will then be occupying a vault
or rounding knoll in the cemetery
He remembers the affections OF his
youth. the vanished places that now
are unacceptable. The new magni-
tude and grandeur will not compen-
safe for these. The passion for tear
in down and demolishing old land
marks was never so fierce and I'M
controlled. II recklessly destroys the
rich and costly edifices Of 20 years
ago. many of them of style and
amplitude. that won the admiration
of the people. To this dear old fogy,
life looks all hurry and hustle and
superficiality II is ridiculous TO love
"a dwelling-place, church and old
club, or picture gallery. or music han
with cat-like tenacity. The fiat has
gone forth that 1t must be destroyed
All the world is on the move. The
car Is at the door get aboard. ana De
off with you? A householder who
hoped to live and die under his own
roof quietly and peacefully finds him
self crowded out of his chosen neigh
borhood, compelled to seek new
shelter. to tear his household goods
out of their inches. and bear them to
strange places In the city where ne
was borb,-a city struck by the eartn.
quake of movement. change and In
novation.
But the old city-lover In this rapid,
feverish age can find few to smy-
pathize with him. He is proser
tormented about things the young
generation does not understand or
care for, generation that knows not
Joseph They are adapting them
selves TO the new environment. The
picturesque, the quiet. the dignifled
and slow. are not worshipped by
them. Their fathers dwelt in roomy
houses: but they are content to live
In cubby-holes, to submit to utility or
the most rigid kind. The palace. the
apartment. and the tenement are the
three types of human dwelling that
bid fair to survive In this great
metropolis. Those who regret the
aypnpdad vi1loga tho lfttIa co1v old