Show TOLL THE BELL The Boston Herald mournfully ex exclaims lain s The Tue Theold Theold old dinner bell of Fulton's Clermont is now on ex ex- The good dinners o of that and other early times imes can never come back The old Clermont has been supplanted by floating floating float float- ing jag palaces and guests guest have hare but to touch a buton button button but- but ton on to be bc served But is there any more the pumpkin pumpkin pump pump- kin pie of old the tue riz riz bi biscuits the perfectly seasoned sausage the tile perfectly cured ham the ancient ancient an an- applejack and the hard cider that cheered and while not inebriating made tile the old chaps who drank it reminiscent and garrulous 7 The old bell should be tolled ev every ry quarter of an an hour for while the tile modern palatial steamer has its compound engines and is glorious with electric lights while I m ich tl the e Clermont sailed at t six ix miles an all hour has been transformed med u until til it is almost or quite the wor worlds world's ds real commercial capital while hiie wealth and l luxury xury have increased until they the are a burden to their dev devotees where where are are the home homemade made sausage the pumpkin n pies and the thc hard cider Where is the old peace of mind that the thc world knew in the old da days das s when the dreams of wealth centered around little humble homes and when hen the girls leaped to cook in the old way ay and did not dream of marrying foreign princes or dukes or counts or 1 I. I Do not ring the old bell any more for breakfast breakfast break break- fast or dinner but toll it every ever fifteen minutes for forthe forthe forthe the deeper splendors that were exchanged ed for the hollow and gilded trinkets of modern times |