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WANDERINGS IN 
FOURTH 
JOURNF.Y. 
Hotels 
and 
boarding¬ 
houses. 
Venus look in a mob cap ? If there be any orna¬ 
ment to the head in wearing a cap, it must surely be 
a false ornament. The American ladies are per¬ 
suaded that the head can be ornamented without a 
cap. A rose-bud or two, a woodbine, or a sprig of 
eglantine, look well in the braided hair ; and if there 
be raven locks, a lily or a snowdrop may be inter¬ 
woven with effect. 
Now that the packets are so safe, and make such 
quick passages to the United States, it would be as 
well if some of our head milliners would go on 
board of them, in lieu of getting into the Diligence 
for Paris. They would bring back more taste, and 
less caricature. And if they could persuade a dozen 
or two of the farmers’ servant sdrls to return with 
O 
them, we should soon have proof positive, that as 
good butter and cheese may be made with the hair 
braided up, and a daisy or primrose in it, as butter 
and cheese made in a cap of barbarous shape; 
washed, perhaps, in soap-suds last new moon. 
New York has very good hotels, and genteel 
boarding-houses. All charges included, you do not 
pay above two dollars a day. Little enough, when 
you consider the capital accommodations, and the 
abundance of food. 
In this city, as well as in others which I visited, 
every body seemed to walk at his ease. I could see 
no inclination for jostling; no impertinent staring at 
you ; nor attempts to create a row in order to pick 
your pocket. I would stand for an hour together 
in Broadway, to observe the passing multitude. 
