The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-05-07
A TRUE CITY BEAUTIFUL.

There are ways in which Moscow
can be made Il city beautiful which
have nothing to do with improved
streets and yards. 1t can be made
beautiful in very true and lofty sense
by the practice of sincere and kindly
hospitality toward those strangers
who come here to make their homes
and toward those who for business or
pleasure, remain here only few days,
weeks, or months A city ambitious,
as this university town should be, to
form for itself strong friendships in
every possible quarter should look
little more carefully than it does
after the entertainment of it's guests
and should not, as it now often does,
leave outsiders to their own devices
for the whole of their stay in town
Moscow can effect UNNECESSARILY
greater results by the cordial welcome
it bestows upon strangers and by the
haste and skill with which it makes
newcomers feel at home than by any
outlay of money to render its exter-
ior more attractive. People who have
been we'll treated are likely, wherever
they may go, to continue warm and
loyal friends of a town that has done
what it can to relieve the tedium of
days dragged out in a strange place.
And no amount of paving or side
walk can make up to the lonely, home
sick newcomer for the cold neglect
and selfish indifference of townspeople !
whose circle of interests does not |
widen to include them. By the nature |
of their occupations men have rela-
lively favorable opportunities to be-
come acquainted and to put them
selves on a friendly footing with the
business world down town. Not so
with their wives. Many a woman
separated for the first time from her
parents other relatives, and lifelong
friends, has pinned for bitter months
in Moscow, with an aching longing to
return to a place where all faces
would not be strange nor her door
bell rung only by peddlers.
There is a duty for men and women
alike in calling upon newcomers and
making plans for their entertainment
and comfort. Some women have so
'alse a notion of what constitutes true
social position as to fancy that hold
ng off from strangers enhances their
own standing and that the boast of
protracted delay in bestirring them
selves to call secures to them a GER
ain reputation for exclusiveness with
nut which their cheap happiness would
lot be complete. Other women are
90 selfish to care for an extension
# the group that already satisfies all ;,
heir needs for companionship. Men
re VIGOROUSLY Indifferent and neg
ectful in the performance of social
uties and in bearing their share Of :,
hey shrink from eXertions that ex- =
end beyond the doorways of their y
torres or offices where, to be sure,
ley are ready to meet the stranger,
nd perhaps, in the slangy sense, at
east, to take him in
Westerners have reputation for
ospitality which dates from the
zee and open life of frontier days
I'd which the general selfishness and
llculating practices of today have
,mehow not been able wholly to de-
roy. 1t is certain that we who live
the west deserve much less credit
an we commonly receive for the
amer in which we share our homes
id for the willingness We show to be-
me interested in the affairs and =
of those for the first time =
ing among us. :
Moscow could we'll afford to take to
art this matter of extending social
to strangers We have
en- been most remiss, and our man.
RS stand in need of speedy mend \,
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