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Show BOSTON'S VILLAGE-LIKE WAYS.' Simple Pastoral Life There as a,,Nev York Woman Saw It. . 'Yes, I've peon to thu' country," snhl a No.w. York girl who kcops her eyo3 open". "I'vo been to Boston. I etnyed thero two weeks, and my head has boon In a whirl since I got back to New York, with nil tho clatter and rush there Is hero oven nt this dull tlmo. "In IJoston tho finest shops nro filled with barohoaded women shoppers. shop-pers. Thoy'ro not women of tho poorer classes, either, but well dr?8fed matrons and stunning looking maids. "In Doston neighbors call to qno cnotlicr from stoop to stoop over tbclr after-dinner coffee. There, too, children visit from houso to house for all tho world as thoy do In country coun-try towns. Nolghbors borrow each other's newspapers, to say nothing ol r.ingazlnes nnd books, nnd thoy use cno, another's telephones. They are nr.t ibovo taking a neighbor's dog for nn nutomobllo rjde, nnd tho way the women tnko their own pnrcols home alter a shopping bout Is enough to mnk6 a Now York sister's eyes open For all tholr cold culttiro thoy beat all 'for asking questions of stranger, .quite ns villagers aro supposed to, do. ; ".It's flno to go thcrp onco In a ' g'ront Whllo when ono wnnts to return re-turn to slmplo country' life,' but for overy day living purposes Now, York suits mo." Now York Sun. |