Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1911 — Baffling Boston. [ARTICLE]

Baffling Boston.

After ten days we were able to find our way around Boston—but not across it If your start to walk out in Boston you always come back to the place from which you started unless you try to; then It Is almost impossible. The transportation is fine, after you have committed It to memory. Tbe hospitality of Boston we shall always remember —but not its street car directions. A Boston street car acts like a bronco. You never know whetb-’ Sr It is going through tbe sir like a bfi-d, under the ground like a mole or tHSieatii the bay. like a fish. The motorman seems to make up his mind as he goes along. The Boston language Is sibilant and stylish. Tbe Boston people love the soft boiled “r.” Out west folks pronounce “r” a good deal like a dog chewing a bone. In Boston they deal as gently with It as they can, as If It Were not to blame for being in the language, although It doesn’t belong there.—Horsesboers’ Journal.