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Show . America is becoming a f it nrn a country without front yards Many 1 hlllgS Are 0r alley. One is struck with Wrong in America this ter a viait t0 EuroPe and the great cities thereof. By JOHN CHENOWITK. Btoo, NW . , . , ., ' J . There is hardly ,a residence i ; J in England that has not its front yard, and the workingmaa who goes home ,in the evening has his little patch of garden which he finds recreation in cultivating. . I dare say there is. not a garden of any pretensions in New Tork city. I observed that the alleys in New York are disappearing with the increasing increas-ing height of the .skyscrapers. In Yvashington I find there are few alleys , in the business sections, and there are not many in the residential communities. commu-nities. There has got to be a stop to the continually increasing haste of Americans. They are all bent upon the same thing, apparently to make money, and the "get-rich-quick" germ seems to have entered into every system. Apparently the Americans do not know how to. live. An Englishman or a German will spend an hour at his meals, whereas the average American Ameri-can will gulp down his breakfast in two minutes, grab a five-minute lunch at noon, and grudgingly will wait at his dinner table for twenty minutes: or a half-hour. It isn't a question of enjoying the meal, but of appeasing , the hunger and putting enough into one's stomach to nourish the system. |