. St. Nicholas [serial]. JESIDENCE IN THE GARDE bearing along the citys front a vast commerceon down to the blue waters of the Gulf, andenriching the city by its cargoes from theouter world and from the plantations of theupper river. Strangely enough, the great yel-low river flows above the city, its surfaceVol. XXX.—53-54. climate, with its long, summer-time languor; ormaybe it is in part due to that inborn dislikefor walls and roofs which is found in peopleliving hard by the tropics; and yet I fancy itis still more because of the nature of the peoplethemselves. They have made the fashion of
. St. Nicholas [serial]. JESIDENCE IN THE GARDE bearing along the citys front a vast commerceon down to the blue waters of the Gulf, andenriching the city by its cargoes from theouter world and from the plantations of theupper river. Strangely enough, the great yel-low river flows above the city, its surfaceVol. XXX.—53-54. climate, with its long, summer-time languor; ormaybe it is in part due to that inborn dislikefor walls and roofs which is found in peopleliving hard by the tropics; and yet I fancy itis still more because of the nature of the peoplethemselves. They have made the fashion of the 4i: THE CITY THAT LIVES OUTDOORS. [Mar. gallery and the banquette and the hedged-incourt and the boulevard — a fashion you will not. GGER IN BLOOM. be slow to adopt when once you have come underthe spell of this beautiful city in the country. There is a large garden in this city — it is, infact, a part of the cityproper. It was once abeautiful faubourg, nowknown as the GardenDistrict, where the peo-ple live outdoors in afine old aristocratic way,and where all the beautyin nature seen in theother sections of the cityseems to be many rare oldhomes are in this gar-den region, with itsdeep hedges and amplegrounds, inclosed inhigh stone walls, and a wealth of flowers and noble courts and anabounding hospitality. But what, after all, are houses to a people that lives outdoors? Con-veniences only; for such a people, better thanhouses are the air of the open, the scent of theroses, the blue of the Southern sky, the vast,strong sweep of the brilliant stars ! If we pause here along this street where runsuch every-day things as electric street-cars, weshall see on one side of the splendid avenue asmooth-paved r
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