A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . d cocked hats, velvet coats and breeches, silk stock-ings and massive canes marked the gentleman of theperiod, and he dwelt in a massive residence of brickor stone, such as within the memory of those stillliving were the city homes of the Waltons, De Pey- A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 327 sters, and other colonial families. In my youth thefashion of homes was one of quiet, unpretending dig-nity, without display—such homes as one still findson the north side of Washington Square and facingit, which for elegance of co
A tour around New York, and My summer acre; being the recreations of MrFelix Oldboy . d cocked hats, velvet coats and breeches, silk stock-ings and massive canes marked the gentleman of theperiod, and he dwelt in a massive residence of brickor stone, such as within the memory of those stillliving were the city homes of the Waltons, De Pey- A TOUR AROUND NEW YORK 327 sters, and other colonial families. In my youth thefashion of homes was one of quiet, unpretending dig-nity, without display—such homes as one still findson the north side of Washington Square and facingit, which for elegance of comfort cannot be surpassed;or, at least, I think so. Recalling the civic dressof the period, I can see that the fashioning of houseand attire was on the same plan of easy, dignified en-joyment. It was a decorous entity in red brick, witha mere shirt-frill of white marble stoop. As to thepresent day it is difficult to philosophize. As I amwhirled up-town on an elevated road past the oldhouses on the Bloomingdale Road in which I wentto the country for weeks at a time in my boyhood,.
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