But Then
They Are Not Quite So Dirty As The Day Cars.
If dirt is to be a
bar against traveling in America, men and women must stay at home.
For myself, I don't much care for dirt, having a strong reliance on
soap and water and scrubbing-brushes.
No one regards poisons who
carries antidotes in which he has perfect faith.
Cleveland is another pleasant town - pleasant as Milwaukee and
Portland. The streets are handsome and are shaded by grand avenues
of trees. One of these streets is over a mile in length, and
throughout the whole of it there are trees on each side - not
little, paltry trees as are to be seen on the boulevards of Paris,
but spreading elms: the beautiful American elm, which not only
spreads, but droops also, and makes more of its foliage than any
other tree extant. And there is a square in Cleveland, well sized,
as large as Russell Square I should say, with open paths across it,
and containing one or two handsome buildings. I cannot but think
that all men and women in London would be great gainers if the iron
rails of the squares were thrown down and the grassy inclosures
thrown open to the public. Of course the edges of the turf would
be worn, and the paths would not keep their exact shapes. But the
prison look would be banished, and the somber sadness of the
squares would be relieved.
I was particularly struck by the size and comfort of the houses at
Cleveland.
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