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and in winter are warmer than third-class carriages in England.
Luxuries are, as I have said, very dear — above all, European luxuries; but a working-man's clothing is nearly as cheap as in England, and plain food is on the whole cheaper.
Even luxuries of a certain kind are within a laboring man's easy reach.
I have mentioned ice; I will mention fruit also.
The abundance and cheapness of fruit is a great boon to people of small incomes in America.
Do not believe the Americans when they extol their peaches as equal to any in the world, or better than any in the world; they are not to be compared to peaches grown under glass.
Do not believe that the American Newtown pippins appear in the New York and Boston fruit-shops as they appear in those of London and Liverpool ; or that the Americans have any pear to give you like the Marie Louise.
But what laborer, or artisan, or small clerk, ever gets hot-house peaches, or Newtown pippins, or Marie Louise pears?
Not such good pears, apples, and peaches as those, but pears, apples, and peaches by no means to be despised, such people and their families do in America get in plenty.
Well, now, what would a philosopher or a philanthropist say in this case?
which would he
Boston. De Wolfe, Fiske &c Co. 361 and 365 Washington Street. 1888.
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