Days and ways in old Boston . 00, 24 The Year Eighteen Forty Seven applies almost equally well to the Boston of1847: There were distinctions in Boston societywhich were the inheritance of old colonial andprovincial relations. The population was chiefly of English type of manhood, ruddier and more robust thanwe are accustomed to meet, was to be seen inthe streets. The citizens managed to be as com-fortable at sixty degrees Fahrenheit as we are atseventy, and knew little of dyspepsia and thosedisordered nerve-centres which occasion theirdescendants so much trouble. Many of the peculiar
Days and ways in old Boston . 00, 24 The Year Eighteen Forty Seven applies almost equally well to the Boston of1847: There were distinctions in Boston societywhich were the inheritance of old colonial andprovincial relations. The population was chiefly of English type of manhood, ruddier and more robust thanwe are accustomed to meet, was to be seen inthe streets. The citizens managed to be as com-fortable at sixty degrees Fahrenheit as we are atseventy, and knew little of dyspepsia and thosedisordered nerve-centres which occasion theirdescendants so much trouble. Many of the peculiarities of Puritanism hadbeen softened, and so much of the old severity asremained supported the moral standards whichthe God-fearing founders of the State had few men were accepted as the leaders of thecommunity and lived under a wholesome convic-tion of responsiViility for its good behavior. Ifthe representatives of good society were in nosense cosmopolitan, their provincialism was hon-est, manly, and intelligent. 25. Thomas Wentworth Hiqqinson OTHER DAYS AND WAYS IN BOSTONAND CAMBRIDGE* By Thomas Wentwokth Higginson In my youth the only public conveyance be-tween Boston and Cambridge was Morses hourlystage. The driver was a big, burly, red-facedman and the fare was twenty-five cents each drove through the then open region, past DanaHill, to the Port, where we sometimes had toencounter, even on the stage-box, the open ir-reverence of the Port chucks, a phrase appliedto the boys of that locaHty, who kept up an antag-onism now apparently extinct. Somehow, I donot know why, the Port delegation seemed to belarger and more pugnacious than the sons of col-lege professors and college stewards. As we leftthe village of Old Cambridge, there were but fewhouses along the open road, until we came to thevillage at the Port. Leaving that behind us, wedrove over more open roads, crossed the riverby the old West Boston bridge, and came to themore thickly settled town of Boston.
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