Cape Smoky 
Such we had not seen elsewhere in Cape Breton, 
and promptly taking our cue we heaped upon 
it the wonderment and praise it merited, while 
the proud mother's eyes shone ; and during her 
detailed exhibition of it we could not help dis- 
covering that it was quite finished and the 
appearance of industry had been but an ingeni- 
ous device to bring it upon the scene. She 
told us she had kept the materials ever since 
she came from Boston, where she had once 
worked. 
To have worked in Boston is a mark of high 
distinction, and gives a girl a right to put on 
airs and be looked up to. She comes back 
from there with ideas and with all sorts of 
household embellishments, many of which are 
of a nature to make one hope they are not dis- 
tinctive of the aesthetic status of Boston. To 
Boston the surplus youth of a family find their 
way, and Boston and the United States are 
synonymous in Cape Breton. 
Boats at Halifax connect with Boston and 
the West Indies, and these ports are the known 
world to the Nova Scotian, besides Canada. 
A woman at Baddeck, upon hearing us men- 
tion Chicago, so soon after its Great Fair, too, 
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