the Slummer

 

"What good does all the research 

of the Impressionists do them
when they never 

got the right person to stand near the tree 

when the sun sank"

"Slumming commenced with a curiosity to see the sights, 

and when it became fashionable to go 'slumming' 

ladies and gentlemen were induced to don common clothes 

and go out in the highways and 

byways to see people of whom

 they had heard, 

but of whom they were as ignorant as if they were inhabitants 

of a strange country."

 September 14, 1884