An Ionic Or Corinthian Capital Stuck On To A Log Of
Wood Called A Column, And Then Fixed Promiscuously To The Outside
Of An Ordinary House, Is To My Eye The Vilest Of Architectural
Pretenses.
Little turrets are better than this, or even brown
battlements made of mortar.
Except in America I do not remember to
have seen these vicious bits of white timber - timber painted white -
plastered on to the fronts and sides of red brick houses.
Again we went on by rail to Buffalo. I have traveled some
thousands of miles by railway in the States, taking long journeys
by night and longer journeys by day; but I do not remember that
while doing so I ever made acquaintance with an American. To an
American lady in a railway car I should no more think of speaking
than I should to an unknown female in the next pew to me at a
London church. It is hard to understand from whence come the laws
which govern societies in this respect; but there are different
laws in different societies, which soon obtain recognition for
themselves. American ladies are much given to talking, and are
generally free from all mauvaise honte. They are collected in
manner, well instructed, and resolved to have their share of the
social advantages of the world. In this phase of life they come
out more strongly than English women. But on a railway journey, be
it ever so long, they are never seen speaking to a stranger.
English women, however, on English railways are generally willing
to converse:
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