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r adventures. Indeed, my hosts seemed at all times unable to hear too much of my impressions of modern

-glass to us, in which we can see how we appear from a different point of view from our own. If it were not for you,

looking-glass effect as to myself and my contemporaries, b

urning white announced that it was midnight, some

a good night's rest for us all, that we g

late as this?" I said. "In my day ev

sing enough to me, that no public service or convenience is ever suspended at the present day, whether by day or night, the

people, of course, are asleep then, but always a portion of them have occasion to be awake and about, and all of us sometimes, and we should consider it a very lame public service that did not provide for the night workers as good a s

holidays; have y

ces. Nowadays, when the working day is so short and the working year so interspersed with ample vacations, the old-fashioned holid

water, together with the throng of gayly dressed and laughing bathers, made an exhilarating and magnificent scene, which was a very effective introduction to the athletic side of the modern life. The loveliest thing of all was the great expanse of water made translucent by the light reflected from the white tiled bottom, so that the swimmers, their whole bodies visible, seemed as if floati

er would be fresh, but the green hue, o

ng when we can get salt," said the doctor. "This

ou get it up

oston Harbor water was far from being clean enough for bathing in your day, but all that is changed. Your sewerage systems, remember, are forgotten abominations, and nothing that can defile is allowed to reach sea or river nowadays. For that rea

re you sure that it is not a trifle cool? Ocean water was

aid the doctor. "Of course, the water is warmed to a co

such great bodies of water, which are so

s freeze you, if you will approach her rightly. The blizzards which used to freeze your generation might just as well have taken the place of your coal mines. You look incredulous, but let me tell you now, as a first step toward the understanding of modern conditions, that power, with all its applications of light, heat, and energy, is to-

hat ever up to that time had fallen to my lot; the pleasure of t

It is said that a marked feature of our modern civilization is that we are tending to revert to th

clock when we

among your friends of the nineteenth century if you dream as you did last night. What w

d a repetition of the experience," I

ly are afraid you will dre

a good mind to sit up all night to avoid t

id. "If you wish me to, I will see that

then, a

m of any particular matter

waking thoughts," I said; "but can

"Remember, you are not to dream of anything to-night which belonged to your