New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-11

bitterness BY fearful foreboding OF payday TO
coma.
The splerdid palaces by which our city has been
beauti6ed within the last ten or twenty years are
agreeable evidences Of our commercial prosperity
and of the rapid increase Of wealth among u.s. Inc
Fifth avenue is very nice promenade; and any
citizen. however poor, who walks up and down It,
with mind free from envy and Jealousy, may de-
rive from its exterior aspect of splendor and COM
Gort-if perchance bis thoughts are not diverted
into some other direction by some barefoot beggar-
girl soliciting his charity certain degree oil
pleasure and satisfaction; perhaps on the "hoie'
considering that there is no drawback OF rents OF
mortgages. nearly equal to that Of those who en-
Joy tie inside of the houses. splendid house
we are free to admit is agreeable object to LOOK
at; and he who builds it is in some sense public
beneactor, whether be intends it or not, since
however scrupuously he may keep the inside OF the
house and the good things there to himself aud his
select circle he can't prevent anybody and every
body from enjoying the outside of it, which very
often, too, is the best side.
at the same time il cannot be denied that this
agreeable promenade and this outside satisfaction
costs our citizens rather too dear Not content
with seeing and admiring we are drawn on to imi-
tate. The Fifth avenue sets the pitch, and the
whole city must join in the chorus. A few persons
who have been specially and remarkably fortunate
in trade and speculation employ their money in
most extrayagant sly lie u housekeeping that being
their highest idea Of the use to which fortune is
10 be put. It were hard TO blame them, but how
ridiculous il is that all the rest of Us TO whom for
tune has not granted any such special expansion
must nevertheless strive to swell ourselves out to
the size or something like it, of our big neighbors
till We burst in the operation, or what Is even
worse, feel every moment that We are on the point
Of bursting
In this reckless and headong extravaganza, this
sacrifice of peace and domestic comfort 70 show, 1t
must be confessed-f We may be allowed thus to
give publicity to what so many good husbands keep
religiou.ly 10 themselves as great family secret
that the women take a very active share; but GER
tainly if they understood their own interest or at
least the interest of their daughters, they would do
their best 10 put stop to it. How many oil our
Young men nowadays can afford to marry and set
I'D housekeeping, The alternative is to live in
clearinghouse. A man BY himself may get along
in boarding house, just as he may get along in
ship. or barrack, or biyOuack; but boarding
house is no place for man who aims at the domes-
tic comforts of married life, and for man with
famimilv of children in addition TO all its other
miseries, it is even more expensive than house
keeping.
fittings go on as they have of late years, New
York will soon become, like ancient Rome, place
in which marriage is held in detestation. The only
kind of love in vogue here will be free-loye, and
the only possible chance for our New-fork dam
sells who aspire to enter into the comfortable and
holy state of matrimony, will be to emigrate to
Utah, where the simple style of living enables the
men 10 keep up a large household establishment,
ard to supply by works of supererosation, in the
shape of duplicate marriages indefinitely repeated,
the shortcomings of the outside heather.