Our Philadelphia . smore important social functions at home. Or else the heatof summer drove them to those seashore and mountainresorts where they could count upon being with otherPhiladelphians, and the winter cold sent them in Lentto Florida, when it began to be possible to carry all Phila-delphia there with them. ]\Iy knowledge of the rest of the world was morelimited. I had been in France, but when I was such achild that I remembered little of it except the nuns in theConvent at Paris where I went to school, and the Gardenof the Tuileries I looked across to from the Hotel had g
Our Philadelphia . smore important social functions at home. Or else the heatof summer drove them to those seashore and mountainresorts where they could count upon being with otherPhiladelphians, and the winter cold sent them in Lentto Florida, when it began to be possible to carry all Phila-delphia there with them. ]\Iy knowledge of the rest of the world was morelimited. I had been in France, but when I was such achild that I remembered little of it except the nuns in theConvent at Paris where I went to school, and the Gardenof the Tuileries I looked across to from the Hotel had going abroad as yet been made a habit in Phila-delphia. There was nothing against the Philadelphiangoing who chose to and who had the money. It defied nosocial law. On the contrary, it was to his social credit,though not indispensable as the Grand Tour was to theEnglishman in the Eighteenth Century. I rememberwhen my Grandfather followed the correct tourist routethrough England, France, and Switzerland, his children. DOWN THP: aisle at CHRIST CHURCH THE FIRST AWAKENING 225 considered it an event of sufficient importance to be com-memorated by printing, for family circulation, an elabor-ately got up volume of the eminently commonplace lettershe had written home—a tribute, it is due to him to add,that met with his great astonishment and complete dis-approval. I can recall my admiration for those of myfriends who made the journey and my regret that I hadmade it when I was too young to get any glory out of it;also, my delight in the trumpery little alabaster figuresfrom Naples and carved wood from Geneva and filigreejewellery from the Rue de Rivoli they brought me backfrom their journey: the wholesale distribution of presentson his return being the heavy tax the traveller abroad paidfor the distinction of having crossed the Atlantic—a tax,I believe, that has sensibly been done away with since thePhiladelphians discovery of the German Bath, the Lon-don season, and the economy of
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