Year: 1871

to cast our vote with those good people


who are in that city on the side of the
/ Lord Jesus. We like to 90 to the modern
Athens two or three times year. Among


other advantages, Boston always sOothes


our nerves. 1t has a quieting effect upon


US The people there are better satisfied


than any people we know Of. Judging
+ from few restless spirits VINO get on


some of the erratic platforms Of that city,


and who fret and fume about things IN


general, the world has concluded that Bos-


ton is at unrest. But you may notice


that the most of the restless people who 60


there are imported speakers, whom Boston


hires to come once 4 year and do for her
all the necessary frett;ng.


The genuine Bostonian IS satisfied. He
rises moderately early, goes to business


without any especial haste, dresses COM
fortablv. talks deliberately, lunches freely,


aud goes home to his family at plausible


hours He would like to have the world


made better, but is not going to make him


sell sick in trying to cure the moral all


ments Of others.


The genuine Bostonian is, for the most


part, pleased with himself, has confidence


that the big Elm will last another hun
dred years, keeps his patriotism fresh by
an occasional walk near the meat market
under Fancuil Hal. and reads the Atlantic


Monthly. We believe there is less fdget-


ng in Boston than in any city of the coun-
try. We think that the average of human


life must be longer there than in most
cities. Dyspepsia is rarity, for when a
mutton chop is swallowed by Bostonlan,
it gives up, knowing that there is no need
of fighting against such inexorable diges-
ton.


The ladies Of Boston have more color in
their cheeks than those of many cities, and
walk as though they would live to get
round the next corner 1t Is not so fash
ionable to be delicate. They are robust
in mind and always ready for an argument.
State what you consider an indisputable
proposition. and they will say . es, but
then" They are not afraid to attack
the theology of minister or the jurispru-
dence Of lawyer, or the pharmacy OF a
doctor If YOU DO not look out, the Bos-
ton woman will throw off her shawl and
upset your logic in pub ic meeting.


We like the men and women of Boston.
They have opinions about every thing
some of them adverse to your own, but
even in that case 50 well expressed, that
n admiration for the rhetoric, you excuse
the divergence Of sentiment. We never
found half-and-half character in Boston.
The people do not wait till they see which
way the smoke Of their neighbors's Chin
news blows before they make up their own
minds.


The most conspicuous book on the par
Tor table of the hotels of other cities is a
book of engravjng~, or a copy OF the Bible.
Ia some Of the Boston hotels. he promin-
eut book on the parlor table Is Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary You may be left
IN doubt about the Bostonians character,
eut need not doubt his capacity to parse
sentence, or spell without any sembance of
blunder the word idiosynerasy


Boston having made up its mind sticks
TO it. Many years ago, it decided that
the religious societies ought 10 hold pub
lie anniversary in June, and it never wav-
ers. New York Is tired of these annual
and goes elsewhere; but in
the early part of every June, Boston puts
It's umbrella under its arm and starts for
fremont Temple, or Music Han, deter
mined to iud an anniversary, and finds it.
Y ou see on the stage the same spectacles
that shone on the speakers ten years ago,
and the same bald heads, for the solid
men Of Boston got in the way of wearing
their hair thin in front quarter of ceu-
tury ago, aud all the solid men of Boston
Will, for the next century, wear their hair
thin in front.


There are fewer dandies in Boston than
in most cities Clothes, as general thing,
do not make fun of the people they sit on.
The humps on the ladies' backs are not
within two feet of being { ; high as in some
Of the other cities, and dromedary could
look at them without thinking itself ca
You see more of the outlaud-
ishncSs of tashiop in one day on Broadway
than in i week on any one street of Bos-
tan. Doubtless, Boston Is just as proud
IS New York, but her pride is that of
brains, and those, from the necessities of
he case are hidden.


Go out on the fashionable drive of BOs-
.on, and you fnd that the horses are
and look as well satisfied as
heir owners. \ restless man always has
thin horse He does not give the crea-
Ure time to eat, wears out on him so many
and keeps Jerking perpetual
at the rejns Boston horses are, for
he most part, fat, feel their oats, and
snow that the eyes of the world are upon
hem. You see, we think it no dishonor
o a minister to admire good horses, pro-
-ided he does not trade too often, and i'm
ooSe a case of glanders and bots on his
neighbor We think that,
IS a minister is set up for an example to
lis flock, he ought to have the best horse
u the congregation. 4 minister is no
more sacred when riding behind spawned
nd ringboned nag than when whirling
long after a horse that can swallow mile
n230.


The anniversary week in Boston closed
y display of flowers and fruits in Horti-
ultural Hall. 1t was appropriate that
and Christians, not from
discussions of moral and religious topics,
hould 20 in and take a bath of rose
caves and geraniums. Indeed, | think
he sweetest anniversary of the week was
hat of these flowers. 4 large rhododen-
ron presided. Azalias and verbenas
ook part in the meeting. The Chinese
oneysuckle and clematis joined in the
GEOLOGY. And we went home praying for
he time when the lily of the valley shall
e planted in every heart, and the desert
nall blossom as the rose.