Year: 1869

The Crowds and the Music-The Fastidious


Grumblcrs and the Boys that Never Gramble.


There was music at the Park yesterday and there
were crowds OF listeners, exclusive of the usual
gathering OF young ladies and gentlemen who are
possessed OF more snowy clothes tnan common
sense, and who make 1t special point every Satur-
day to walk in couples up and down the Ramble
between double row of common people, who
gaze at the sight curousy and laugh in their sleeves
immensely. There was very little animation about
the crowds, however, none OF that happy look which
shines out from the countenance OF every man,
woman and child one meets with In the Park in
summer time, and which says as plainly as words
can say 1t, ave came here for comfort and we have
found IT," On the contrary, they had dissatisfied
air about them that made every new conner In their
midst sour as the notorious apple tree Of war
fame before he had got well within sight
OF the music stand on his arrival Not, indeed, that
the people who looked at each other askance and
who strutted about nervously as though they were
waiting impatiently at depot for q train that was
an hour behind time, were gifted by nature with
more bile than most folks are blessed with. Not at
ALL as Jones, who always smiles on his customers
at the corner grocery store, was present with
all his female family done up In red sacks
and astounding headdresses, as was Smith, who
never said cross word in his life to anybody VINO





exquisite, who laughs at everything he doesn't
understand with precision quite mechanical. But
the light wind that winged its way through the trees
and cut the short lives of the leaves shor er still as
1t shook the branches in its passage and then
heartlessy scattered them about to die far away
from their parent stems, was the cause OF the
general "blues:' for didn't 1t steal In among the
curls OF the sweet blondes and threaten to pull
them Off when they deftly fastened together
to the natural HAIR, not to say anything about Its
blowing the powder of more than one beautyis
cheeks enc s. ana reducing veVe1coated gentemens
there were those horrid leaves scamper-
ing about Just as. as though they could
winds behests with apparent cheerfulness; nor did
IL add TO the general good feeling when the poor
things as If to hide the shame OF their DOWNFALL
took refuge in clouds OF dust that worked their way
out OF the hard roads among the visitors in some
mysterious way not known TO the Park Commission
ers.


The Park, however happily has other attractions
this season OF the year than the booming or bg
though the winds may consternate artificial cheek
bloom and golden locks, and the leaves trip delicate
feet and dust clouds drive the roads, they are
always sufficiently fascinating to draw greater
crowds than the Pagoda musicians draw,
and give glow ont the ,n cheek that
breath. These attractions the play ground; aud
all yesterday forenoon, when the band didn't play
and all the afternoon when It did its meodious
best TO be agreeable, they were occupied by more
urchins with bats and ball than woud have crowded
TO mischief making repleuon half dozen public
laughed as only boys can, and who rolled on the
grass and ran races and played leap frog and did all
manner OF things that amused themselves and didn't
give annoyance to 'children OF a greater growth


Where the gilded Pagoda shone brightly un0er the
sunlight, and where Dodworth did all that lay In the
power OF his baton TO make hs side OF the PARK the
resort par excellence were the many that had the
"bluesr ana couldn't await the closing piece
the crowds which the falling leaves annoyed, the
dust made ndqetty and the playful wind put In a
pout; and between them and the surplus who
found fault with nothing and who wouldn't have
abandoned their game for q hundred bands OF
music, bedecked with gay equlpages, wound the
road-the Park dividing line between health and
fashion.