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The sweetest thing in life to me is walking down
Haberdasher: Here is the cap your worship useful rather than the thing ornamental with
did bespeak.
Broadway.''
fire in her eye and sarcasm in her tones.
There are many other celebrated streets in
Petruchio: Why this was moulded on a
Perhaps her husband Is a yachtsman.
other celebrated cities, but only one Broadway. porringer ; a velvet dish ; fie, fie, 'tis lewd and
Whilst calling upon some friends in Brooklyn
When not impelled by necessity to hasten, there filthy. Why, 'tis a cockle or a walnut shell ; I heard a lady tell this story. I sub-let it not
is, to my thinking, few pastimes more agreeable a knack, a toy, a trick, a baby's cap. Away only because of its pleasant outcome, but it ap-
and pleasant than sauntering through that with it, come let me have a bigger.
pears also suggestive of a moral :
thoroughfare on a bright day. A proper use
" About two weeks ago my husband, on his
Katherine : I'll have no bigger ; this doth fit
of such privilege as permissable gadding along the time.
way home from his office, saw a dilapidated
that artery of the city's life is equivalent to a
poor man standing in front of a restaurant win-
And gentle women wear such caps as these.
liberal education.
dow—this was down town in New York. Harry
One fair morning I strolled from 35th street
Standing in front of a window in which was a was touched with the appearance of the woe-
down to the foot of Union Square. I was inter- unique display of silverware, trophies, prizes, begone specimen of humanity and ragged gar-
ested in much I saw and amused by what I properties belonging to well-known yacht own- ments, and as he was not approached for assist-
heard. L,ife is too short to attempt a description ers or clubs, cups, flagons, plates and emblems ance, he walked up to the apparently impover-
of all the details. A large volume might not which may be described by pictures or engrav- ished individual and asked him if he was hungry.
include the thoughts suggested by my environ-
" The reply was : ' I have not had a mouthful
ings, scarcely by words. As a matter of course,
ment. The procession of carriages, cars and
to
eat for thirty-six hours. 1
any intelligent person must understand that these
vehicles of traffic made great bustle and noise ;
'' ' Come in here and we will see what can be
so-called cups are seldom, if ever, constructed
the human procession, or, if it may be so
with reference to utility. In the name of com- done,' said Mr. Harry to him who hungered,
termed, panorama, ever varying as a revolving
mon sense why should any trophy be construct- and then to the Boniface : ' Let this man have all
kaleidiscope, was wonderful to behold as re-
he can eat at my expense.'
spects numbers, vivacity and general appear- ed for any but ornamental purposes, especially
"After consulting the bill of fare he of the
ance. There was, if any, slight evidence of when contested for by those who can support a profound vacuum ordered that reasonably priced
yacht,
sure
symbol
of
wealth
or
fortune
?
Hard Times marked upon the faces or habili-
but filling combination, • Corned-beef-and-cab-
While admiring these works of art two ladies
ments of those ever coming and going coteries,
bage,' with potatoes ' on the side ' and a cup of
the never ending throngs which, by a large approached and entered immediately upon ad- coffee.
majority, wore the apparent stamp and seal of verse criticism, the only article displayed meet-
" Then the good Samaritan handed the inn-
ing with approbation was an unpretentious silver
Vanity Fair.
keeper
his penny and departed.
salver, which one of them termed a "waiter,"
Among other impressions I received was that
"Some
days—ten days—thereafter Mr. H.
all other pieces being condemned as " Useless,"
many pretty girls and women managed to dis-
was
halted
in front of the same eating house by
"Ugly," "Good for nothing. I can not see
figure themselves, some by the manner of hair-
the
same
man,
and when he was recounting the
why men squander money on such trash. "
dressing, others by failure to cover their heads
foregoing to his wife, she at this point ex-
1
' And then what a fuss they do make in the cl aimed : ' Of course he wanted another dinner.''
with reasonable or sufficient gear. A sort of
semi coronet, an imitation of a butterfly, over- newspapers about yacht races and these things."
" ' No, 1 replied Harry, 'he wanted to thank
" Yes, my dear, for my part I would sooner me for what I had done.'
grown, to serve the purpose of hat or bonnet
appeared so frequently that I was impressed have a chafing dish. Let us go in and see
" It seems that the restaurant-keeper, observ-
with the absurdity and could not avoid recalling whether they keep them here."
ing the voracity of the guest, became interested
a few lines from Shakespeare :
So they departed, she who preferred the thing in him, and after the meal was finished, learned,
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