New Walks in Old Ways 



Fancy calling still the old home of 

 the first Continental Congress Phila- 

 delphia! Are we so hard-pressed for 

 indigenous, appropriate names as to 

 be compelled to stand always for such 

 an academic Athenian anesthetic? 

 Maybe the name accounts partly for 

 the traditional torpor in which the 

 native-born Philadelphians are com- 

 monly supposed to be profoundly 

 steeped. 



Jumping across the continent to the 

 western coast we find San Francisco, 

 borrowed from decadent Spain, with 

 the Sierras near at hand bristling with 

 beautiful New World designations, and 

 in the upper Mississippi watershed 

 St. Paul and Minneapolis. The former 

 had as well been John-the-Baptist, and 

 the latter is a monstrous combination 

 of Indian and Greek. And all the 

 while the plains, prairies and forests, 

 from whence they have derived their 

 strength, blossomed everywhere with 

 fascinating native appellations. In the 

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