` Sometimes ; but they get lazy and delicate , living in close , warm places . We laugh at cold and bad weather , and are so strong and hearty that I should n't be surprised if I saw Webster and Everett flying round the Common on the new-fashioned velocipedes , for they believed in exercise . Goethe and Schiller often step over from De Vries 's window , to flirt with the goddesses , who come down from their niches on Horticultural Hall . Nice , robust young women are Pomona and Flora . If your niminy-piminy girls could see them run , they would stop tilting through the streets , and learn that the true Grecian Bend is the line of beauty always found in straight shoulders , well-opened chest , and an upright figure , firmly planted on active feet . ' ` In your rambles do n't you find a great deal of misery ? ' said I , to change the subject , for he was evidently old-fashioned in his notions . ` Many sad sights ! ' And he shook his head with a sigh ; then added , briskly , ` But there is a deal of charity in our city , and it does its work beautifully . By the by , I heard of a very sweet charity the other day , -- a church whose Sunday school is open to all the poor children who will come ; and there , in pleasant rooms , with books , pictures , kindly teachers , and a fatherly minister to welcome them , the poor little creatures find refreshment for their hungry souls . I like that ; it 's a lovely illustration of the text , `` Suffer little children to come unto me ; '' and I call it practical Christianity . ' He did like it , my benevolent old bird ; for he rustled his great wings , as if he wanted to clap them , if there had only been room ; and every feather shone as if a clearer light than that of my little fire had fallen on it as he spoke . ` You are a literary woman , hey ? ' he said suddenly , as if he 'd got a new idea , and was going to pounce upon me with it . ` Ahem ! I do a little in that line , ' I answered , with a modest cough . ` Then tell people about that place ; write some stories for the children ; go and help teach them ; do something , and make others do what they can to increase the sabbath sunshine that brightens one day in the week for the poor babies who live in shady places . ' ' I should be glad to do my best ; and , if I 'd known before ' -- I began . ` You might have known , if you 'd looked about you . People are so wrapt up in their own affairs they do n't do half they might .
Now , then , hand me a bit of paper , and I 'll give you the address , so you wo n't have any excuse for forgetting what I XXXXX you . '
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