Newark post., 1910-10-26
AN APPRECIATION OF NEWARK
Our Town As Seen By A Stranger--tier Impressions

1t was beautiful April night when |
first came to Newark AS we were
approaching on the train, the town
seemed, in the bright and shining
moonlight, forest of trees pierced
here and there by some dim and dis
tant lights. The calm and quiet reign
ing IN the streets, when we entered the
town at half-past nine, revealed at
once what Newark was. 1t was not
noisy and boisterous town No rush
ing pedestrians crowded the streets;
we had scarcely met single man
All had evidently retired. Then came
the pleasant thought that Newark
must be a place of happy homes A
glance at the town by daylight soon
confirmed this impression In con-
trast to the crowded apartment houses
OF the cities, were many small and
private houses, separated from one
another by sufficient ground to allow
plenty OF air, light and room, comfort
which cannot help but make the pas
SCISSORS happy. And indeed this happy
exterior one soon finds to be but a
faint reflection of the home within.
Peace, order, a very sweetness even
emanates from every corner and be-
tokens the love of those who live
there-truly a picture OF family life
hard to find in the larger cities where
the struggle for life tears away the son
from the father, the daughter from the
mother, husband from wife during the
long, hard day. leaving the home de-
serted. 1t is not in those large cities
where all extremes of wealth and pow
erty, greatness and lowness, morality
and RIGHTEOUSNESS exist side by side,
that one can learn the true characters
tic of American life. 1t is in these
small towns, in these quiet and un-
broken homes which exert so great an
influence upon the character of the in
dividual that we are to look for the
keynote Of the American character, or
at least Of the Western and Southern
Americans.
To one coming from New York this
domestic atmosphere of Newark makes
the deepest impression. What beau
itful democracy in the relationship of
husband and wife. parents and child
rem, brothers and sisters! What a
noble attitude towards household work
SO different from that prevailing in
the so-called sristocratic cities! Wo-
men OF education and wealth do not
think it at all beyond their dignity to
leave their conversation run on the
subject OF canning and preserving and
other matters of housekeeping, while
professors and ministers are seen in
the morning going to the. butcher
shops, the groceries, the fruit stores,
doing whatever they can to tighten
the labor of their wives These con-
ditions of things could only exist in
happy and contcnted homes
That Newark people are on the
whole satished-and he is wise who is
satisfied with his Lots evidenced by
the fact that every acquaintance the
newcomer meets after greeting him
with the hundred times repeated ques-
ton of how he likes Newark, gives
him the assurance that he will like the
town in little while. Now is this
confidence ever misplae cd? 1t seems
that whatever Newark is or is not, it
has that blessed peculiarity that all
those who live in it become attached
to it. Whether that attachment be the
result of appreciation for the town
and its opportunity for development,
whether it be attachment to its little
circle of friends, or to its profession,
or to its own undisturbed and regular
life is a thing which one finds ont later