Show Is EULFIlHII STREET I The German and Italian poor have a commendable habit of taking many 1 of their pleasures out by families Not so the people of Bulfinch street Large numbers of family men forsake their families for the saloon and kitchen barrooms a few for the theatres The rest smoke their pipes stolidly in the windows on the doorsteps or in the kitchen too tired to move about too ignorant or hampered by insufficient light to read The men who go to the saloons are not necessarily the worse they may be simply the more enterprising enter-prising They go no doubt because they ore thirsty but also because of a strong social instinct And in at least ona of the saloons frequented by them there is considerable mental stimulus in the talk at the tables There are women dn Bulflnch street who work out regularly during the day and wash iron and sew far into the night for their own families These are exceptions As a class they have more leisure than the woman of better todo streets They Ignore utterly the trifling household cares hat worry the life out of the conscientious middle class housekeeper and they have no burdensome society obligations They are always gossiping on the stairs They stop for a chat at the grocery or the beer shop They often take possession of their doorsteps in the forenoon and hold them until bedtime leaving them only for meals or other more animated doorsteps sometimes pretending to sew sometimes without even that pretense pre-tense A few women take their pleasures pleas-ures in the kitchen barrooms with the men and some of these have brutal faces But the faces of the majority of the Bulfinch street men and women are neither wicked nor wretched They express stolid animal contentThe Forum |