| Show OUR LETTER FROM THE HUB 1 wandering Wand erinn ute speaks of boston behavior BOSTON april 11 1886 editor deseret news before returning to home I 1 have noted town down a few of my observations of things in general in tile the hub and as I 1 looked over them I 1 thought some of them might be int interesting erestine to a few of your readers who may never come here to see for themselves I 1 BOSTONIAN characteristics THE ROUGHER SEX it is well known that boston society lays claim to the very highest american culture culture and as I 1 was eager to had find what this consisted oti ot I 1 have tried to avail myself of every opportunity to notice the peculiarities of so called cultured people first let me start with the men the more uncultured sex they are arc careful to appear well dressed boots blacked aul atia lair bair either w well e 11 oiled or cut to stand straight up on the head seared scared to death falon fashion a careless air is preferred to a courteous one as the latter might hint at want of american independence they are generally gette rally chivalrous enough to sit carelessly in a street car and let the ladies stand especially if the ladies are not in silk attire of course coarse they I 1 nay leep through h college 91 lege studied tu ate all the branches of learning just to take the course arid and have forgotten more than the western young man ever heard of the latter may li have ve a much better idea of the object of his study and consequently may make better use of his learning but the meal does not begin to consist of as many courses as that the cultured young men atthe at the hub have to digest aney attend church when the speaker is a noted one and the music extraordinarily dina rily tine fine they prefer lectures to sermons though there are but bus very slight differences in the two here as a rule rate they are very moral none owning two or more wives or cohabiting with more than one woman in the marriage relation do not suggest to them that you suppose they do not out of it or they will smile and look at you as if ayou you learned the society ways they are all interested in politics and jhb labor question to some extent while a few work nobly in the interest of humanity helping the poor to get daily bread and education and the drunkard to return to sober ways these deserve and will I 1 I 1 am sure receive their r reward eward and their are also many especially in the middle ranks of life with a fair practical education imbued with a christian christiaa like spirit who are reasonably free from t the 0 seven deadly sins which a reverend minister not long since singled out as abeln being g sins of young men in modern t times I 1 in es 1 I suppose he meant in this part lr of tile the country as I 1 do not think we are at home afflicted with any of them to any great i extent they are lazi ness dr drunkenness unken nees gambling untruthfulness ful ness dishonesty want of virtue and unbelief THE BOSTON LADIES the ladies impress one always with their self depa dependent aident air they donot do not appear to care whether they have a gentleman for an escort ar not and are quite above looking for any particular little attentions from the creature handsomely and tastefully dressed and with that ease of bearing that denotes all the culture they lay claim to one begins to admire them and soliloquise soliloquize on the superiority of of the sex in general and boston ladies in particular when to his utter disgust ta he ely suddenly sees a couple of the ad mirable beauties lugging an ugly poodle dog each in her arms as a fond mother would a lovin loving child it is openly declared here that many wealthy ladies great part of their time in this noble elevating calling ingot of attending to pet dogs could anything be more lamentable than such a ridiculous waste of attention tender watchful care and affection which many a motherless child might be made happy with not to mention a still nobler calling that might take the place of this barbarous one THE FINE ARTS both men and women enco encourage urae the fine arts here as if it were a soa sort of a duly so to do the japanese are re clivine considerable attention here this winter and it is thip the right thing to eto do to admire everything oriental the sabbath is variously observed temperance lectures where the boisi est applause is indulged in are held 16 sacred concerts very unlike B B at home are held in the musk music hall where all kinds of songs even the negro minstrel sort are su sung ng and boisterously applauded and recalled every sunday evening I 1 did not anticipate this in the world as we term it as in old wales tile the sabbath was even better observed by bv all classes than it is at home but either the world has grown worse since then thenor or america and wales differ greatly to the formers discredit boston is great for many of the ex cellen cies cles of this worlds affairs but I 1 cannot bring myself to see that here civilization and godliness walk hand in hand and I 1 cannot but and pray with more solicitude than everi ever that in utah as we grow erow in learning we agy me y not notecase cease growing in godliness WANDERING UIE PEOA ITEMS PEOA summit co april eth 1886 editor deseret news although your paper is quite extensively taken in this place I 1 1 seldom see any news in it from here so I 1 thou thought ht I 1 would write a lew few lines our settlement is reasonably prosperous and although winter still lingers iu in ane lap of spring our people are getting ready for farm work in the last few years some six or eight hundred of bit hitherto herto uncultivated bench land has been taken up and utilized and now yields fine crops of wheat and oats there are several saw mills near here which turn out large quantities of lumber shingles lath etc which find a ready sale ale in park city this season has been a very backward one and the surrounding hills bills are arc still covered with snow there was some fine weather in february but march was wintry in the extreme peoa geoa boasts of two thriving well kept stores and the old saying that competition is the life of trade was nevermore never more fully proven than in this place E each ach store is making a worthy effort to secure the bulk of the trade and the result is that while grocer groceries riess and dry goods are cheaper than in any other place in this section of the country people who carry produce to 10 these stores get from 20 to 30 per cent more for it than the stores in the other settlements tle ments along the river give although almost completely isolated the gret great outvote e world th the e NEWS keeps us as informed of events in other parts of the land THE GREAT STRIKE 5 in the states has at length reached our quiet burg and a few abys since the superintendent and clerk of the coop co op here concluded that their services were worth more than they were then ra rei cel calving ce iving ving accordingly they and with the result that the clerks salary was increased one third superintendents per cent if 11 0 he knights of labor are equally su ceesar q f ful ul jay gould wil will either leither nave have to raise kid passenger and freight rates on A afi roads or declare smaller dividends the stockholders we are wat watching ebing with great inhere in tere the grethren proceedings tr roce edings in salt lake 14 against our brethren ethren who are arrested and imprisoned for their religious belief arl and ask ourselves how long wa this last how much longer will the lord suffer s his people p 0 to be oppressed by the of zion but this treatment is no more e than the saints have been taught taugh to expect the lord has said ochae U have a tried people jand and we must in bat ap pp p purified even as gold we can now tell the true who are willing to suffer for christs sake the drosi will ite flop separated from the gold an and we shall be a better belter people tor for our trials the nonappearance non appearance of brother brota W cannon occasioned some bur surprise P 40 here but we all rejoiced that b he had bad escaped the clutches of dickson and his gang ang I 1 I 1 I 1 for fear that I 1 have already writ written WA W A too much I 1 shall close by wishing the ae NEWS success and long lone life FRANK MILKS |
