Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-10-27

SOCIAL LIFE IN LoNDoN.-Goo. w. Hill
lard writes the following pleasant account of
social married, and club life of London -
81 am at No. 81 ST. James street, give
you the street and number because | wish to
recommend the house, have a sitting room
bed room, and dressing room, tor which / pay
a guinea and half week. They are in the
fourth story; the rate of payment lessons as
you go up, and the same accommodations on
the second story, or first floor, would be more
than double. Besides the above amount, pay
a shilling day for attendance. Breakfast and
tea are furnished when | desire-very good
and at reasonable rates.
In this same street Horace Walpoe lived,
and Byron before his marriage once lodged
Out OF my window l can see the house in
which Gibbon died. A few rods off is st.
James Square, in which George Ill. was
born, and where the Duke of Roxburgh lived,
and collected that memorable library the mem
Dry of which is so precious to every biblioman-
lac. In King street, which leads from St.
James street to st. James Square, the EN-
peror OF the French lodged when an exile in
England. a cab stand is before the door
post office is close by the Wellington, one of
the best restaurants in London, is nearly oppo
site; so that all the wants Of a stranger and a
wayfaring man are easily supplied. My way
of life is that of hundreds and thousands of
others In London, not merely sojourneis but
resldents-many of them men of birth and
breeding, but not possessed OF an income suf
tcient to enable them to marry-for marriage
here upon small income is solemn thing
who have no homes, or rather houses OF their
own, and pass their lives in lodgings i'll Lon
don, varied by excursions upon the continent
or visits to friends house. 1t is a manner
of life not without its dangers, and not very
conducive to the growth of the higher
qualities of the character its isolation, and
the custom of living for and by ones self are
apt to engender habits Of hardness and selfish
ness. But there is one element in the lite of
such a man which have not stated he would
almost invariably be a member of some one Of
the many clubs in London life In his club he
would find all the material comforts Of the
most luxurious home, at very moderate ex-
pense-a well chosen library all the leading
reviews, magazines, and newspapers, foreign
and domestic pen, ink and paper; the atten
dannce Of well.trained servants and besides
these he may take all his meals at the club
and upon any scale of expense that he chooses
These clubs are successful applications Of that
principle of aggression or application which
lies at the bottom of so many of the socialiStic
schemes of the present day; the principle is
right, and the only question is how far it can
be carried, if any farther than it has been done
in the London clubs. The principle is that
what is done for many can be done very
cheaply, in proportion to the numbers, than
what is done for one; you can feed or warm a
hundred for a sum less than hundred times
what it takes to warm one. A thousand per-
sons clubs together and pay seventy five dol
lars each; this will erect and furnish large
and handsome binding, and then each of these
persons will pay thirty dollars a year, which
will supply an income to carry it out. Though
thousand persons have right to use the
club, yet not more than fifty or hundred are
actually using it at any one time.