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Show no.tonUn. anil Jfw Tork.rs, . ""V?9 maaf some means, ffi 4whom Le cnsilers the most evej or w T mNwYkthe man, L? v ? ,dth' goes with hi wife to ook at ready made houses, and accents buys and pays for the one whicMs objectionable. In other words, the Boston Bos-ton man has his clothes carefully made for him by a tailor whom he thinks skill- Sadyma11 Oddly enough this comparison, if for the ew York manis notoriously the , most carefully dressed man on the continent, con-tinent, and has, as Mark Twain says, "a godless i grace and snap and style" about himself and his dress which the people of other communities find it impossible to reproduce; but in building-except in the obviously exceptional cases of palaces-elegance, comfort and a careful adaptation of means to an end are less studied in New York than in any other community which can in any respect be compared with it.-Russell Sturgis in Scnbner's. |