Show VIEWED IN DIFFERENT LIGHT chicago man s keen criticism of nev york characteristics mark twain speaking of dress in his life on the mississippi remarks how grace and drop gradually out of it as one travels a afew york he adds it be that carriage Is at the bottom of this thing and I 1 think it Is tor there are plenty of ladles and gentle ir en in the provincial cities whose garments gai ments are all made by the best and dressmakers of new york yet this has no perceptible effect upon the grand tact the educated eye never mistakes these people for new NO there is a godless grace and snap and style about a born and bred new yorker which mere cloth ng cannot efface in the smoking room of a french liner which docked here a few days ago this passage was recalled by one of a group of cosmopolites who die cussed it I 1 dont know about the godless giace said an but the snap and style are unquestionable 11 should say that the new yorker haa an air about him an air of alert con floence which distinguishes him jus so said a frenchman Irenc hman an air distingue zat Is beet out our way said a man from chicago we call that confidence gall and the air hot new york times |