Valentine's manual of old New York

(New York. :  Valentine's Manual, inc.,  1923.)

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OF OLD NEW YORK
 

DOOR-PLATES.
Harold Seton

In Munsey's Magazine, July, 1919.

A charming custom, to be sure,

These bits of burnished brass
On which one's name would long endure

To tell the folks who pass
That you are you, and I am I,

And this our home!   Therefore
One has good cause to heave a sigh

That door-plates are no more!

Once families passed all their lives

Within the selfsame walls;
But when modernity arrives.

Conservatism palls.
"Come, let us scan some other streets.

New neighborhoods explore!"
These are the arguments one meets,

And door-plates are no more!

We would not need them in a flat;

We always move each year;
If we unscrewed them, after that

From landlords we should hear!
Yes, there are customs quaint and old

That I would fain restore;
But other people scoff and scold.

So door-plates are no more!
 

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