. The century illustrated monthly magazine . MY *]\ST YEAR. AFTER surmounting threescore and ten,With all their chances, changes, losses, sorrows,My parents deaths, the vagaries of my life, the many tearing passions of me, the war of 6$ and 4,As some old broken soldier, after a long, hot, wearying march, or as haply after battle,At twilight, hobbling, answering yet to company roll-call, Here, with vital voice,Reporting yet, saluting yet the Officer over all. Walt Whitman. STREET LIFE IN HE unconscious life of apeople, like that of individ-uals, is its most interestingexpression; and h
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . MY *]\ST YEAR. AFTER surmounting threescore and ten,With all their chances, changes, losses, sorrows,My parents deaths, the vagaries of my life, the many tearing passions of me, the war of 6$ and 4,As some old broken soldier, after a long, hot, wearying march, or as haply after battle,At twilight, hobbling, answering yet to company roll-call, Here, with vital voice,Reporting yet, saluting yet the Officer over all. Walt Whitman. STREET LIFE IN HE unconscious life of apeople, like that of individ-uals, is its most interestingexpression; and habits andmanners that are developedfrom the conditions of cli-mate or of situation appealmore to the imaginationthan where costumes and peculiarities are acci-dental or factitious grafts from other races, ornations differently circumstanced. In American cities the population is so com-plex that, beyond a few distinctive habits in-duced by climate, the people have as yet littlethat is picturesque in their out-of-door see the Irish girl, who never before inher life had on a bonnet, walking off to churchin the latest style from Paris, and the littleChinaman, with his pig-tail cut off or coiledout of sight, in as black a stove-pipe hat andpolished boots as an English cockney or aBroadway swell. People complain even in the old cities ofEurope of the disappearance of national cos-tumes, and that everybody is getting to behaveand dress like everybody else. This fact holdsgood in London,
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