Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-01-23

A GENTEEL BOARDING HOUSE.-A lady CORES
pondent of the New York Mirror, furnishes few
glimpses of life in genteel boarding house:
A very genteel establishment is Mrs. Puffit's
very One may be assured of that bv the
manner in which the meals are served There is
no superiority at Mrs. Pufit's table, The small.
| est quantity offood is placed symmetricalv upon
the greatest number of gilt-edged plates Coarse.
! minded persons, unused to society, might say
that there was not enough to eat But what OF
that: the silver salt-celars are carved superbly.
and the napkins are ofthe finest quality, and even
if the joints of meat have to be carefully carved
to make them $50 round' surely the silver forks
and hnger glasses are ample compensation for
such slight deficiencies. Things are called by
Their right names at Mrs. Puffits too. She never
asks any one i. she shall help them to potatoe;
| no, indeed! she inquiries if she shall '.accommo-
| date them to pomme de terra" Neither does
she send slice of pumpkin pie to Mr.. Glubbins /;
! she says 'Jeemes, the pomplon pastry to Mr.
| Glnbbons;" and Mr.. Glubbons IS forthwith pro-
vided with triangular wedge Of that article,
nearly the size of his forefinger, and an immense
| " large silver fork to eat it with. And then it
| is worth something to see Mrs. Pufit preside
| She always dresses in black velvet at dinner
time: and she has such pretty juvenile way of
struggling her fat, white shoulders out of her
bodice, and is so ingenious in the display of her
| treat to see her. And then the soeiety!-they
are not all common people at Mrs. Pufit's-not
by any means First and foremost, there is Mr.
and Mrs. Glubtins, from England, who having
OF course, lost large fortune and an enstate OF
| great magnitude, have come to this country for
| the purpose of taking notes of the manners and
| customs of the Americans. Then there are any
quantity of dapper-like counter.jumpcrs, done up
| in pink and blue cravats, with enormous bows
A,,l f1arn
literary world, who has written poetry of the
most pathetic description for many years, for the
sole purpose of convincing the public generally
| that she is possessed off distracted and discon-
ISOLATE lover, residing at present in parts unknown.
Then there is the Reverend Mr.. Pinkmen, who
has been brought up on pin-cushiOns pen-wpers,
| and other products of fancy fairs, and is only
waiting suitable opportunity to start on mis-
sion to the heather. Then there is pretty Mrs.
Barlow, who addresses her husband as "Chy-a.
aries, love" before company, and boxes his ears
| IN private. The domestic establishment consists
OF "Jeemes, the waiter, and one Irish girl who
is expected to do the work of six women, and
sleeps in the coal-hole, when she sleeps at all.
The Hoes DEFENsE.-The following extract
from the report Of the committee on Hogs. read
before an Agricultural Society, 'down east, con-
tains some excellent hits:
AGAIN some IOlkS accuse pigs OF Delng hthy
in their habits, and negligent in their personal
appearance. But whether food is best eaten off
the ground, or from china plates, is, it seems to
me, merely matter of taste and convenience.
about which pigs and men may honestly differ
They ought then to be judged charitably At
any rate pigs not filthy enough to chew tobac-
CO. nor to poison their breath with whiskey. As
to their personal appearance, You don't catch
pig playing the dandy, nor the females among
them picking their way up this muddy village,
after a rain, in kid slippers.
Notwithstanding their heterodox notions hogs
have some excellent traits of character If one
chances to wallow little deeper in some mire
hole than his fellows and so carries off and comes
in possession of more of this earth than his
brethren, he never assumes an extra Importance
on that account, neither are his brethren stupid
enough to worship him for it. Their only ques-
ton seems to be, is he still hog? 1.-The is, they
treat him as SUCH
And when a hog has no merit of his own he |
never puts on aristocratic airs, or claims partic-
ular respect on aceount of his family connections:
and yet some hogs have descended from some |
very ancient families. They understood full well |
the common sense. maxim, every tub must stand
upon its own bottom