The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1860-04-21

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cnrreat svehes over tAem, md they aSe kn0Wn .
landladies 10 nose, fbgsvef. n other inatances,
shey i've ftsa hand = noueh-sheir means Of
support becoming ny ~ day nese pescarious
-ehe voadef 6einEs Aos now tney ase able %
keep boardsgAos but how they manage 70
live 6 a.
Doerding-Aouses have mot been inappsopsiate-
lystyled-'L Livery stables for young mem Young
men do most eongfegase at boarding houses, BE-
cause they ere cheaper than hosela, and are thot
70 insure more Of IL comforts Of life. This
may or maynoe bese. We havs yst 70 find eth
er The hotel or boar1lne.Aouse at which the real
comforts IL life are 70 - eqjoyed-the comforts
of ones own home. A. either, one 10 expected to
eat what 3 ct before him, or what is on the bill
offares Onsi pa)aas or peculiar tastes are con-
suited, not ct al Who ever enjoyed meal ata
hotel q boarding house, in comparison to the en-
ioyment Of meal at ones own home
But hosels and boarding houses are necessary
young men and traveless TO occupy them, and ii
IL mot our intention as The present time TO dccry
against these institutionA bat simply to speak Of
. great and crying evil which ID too frequently
practised upon Ne poor landlady, by taoughslcss
or Indifferent young men. The matter Of which
We complain may be considered small Ut first
glance, but this does mot necessarily make il 90,
for in truth il 4 Of no inconsiderabte magnitude,
~ we think We viii show ere We have done
with the subject. N
In word, We allude to the practice Of young
men-boarders- inviting friends and acquain-
tances to dine and sup with them, and forgetting
to paw fDr their friends meals It looks like .
small matter, does il mot Small a. it il, 1t has
kept boarding house mistresses poor-and il is a
custom which would be far more honored in the
breach than the observance. The rates Of board
ing are from q 80 TO o5 per wcek-how many
free meals would 1t take TO eat up either Of these
amounts?
The custom il, particularly on Sundays, for
gentlemen boarders invite their acquaintances to
dine with thcm-to try the cuisine of their land
lady, and thusat dinner-time the table s oft-tmes
crowded with dead-heads"-dead-heads of the
most expensive character, who are able to play
brilliant engagement at the popular game ofknife
aud fork, and do al justice, far q the eating
is concerned. to the much praised larder Of their
stances where these dead-heads were 50 numer-
Gus that those boarders who had no friends to in
yite, were compelled to wait for the second table,
and be content with the remnants left by the in
vited guestA
Instances have been known, where ''boardersr
have offered to pay for the mealsof their friends,
and have offered the lsndlady quarter between
their thnmb and SoreGngcr, with an air as much
as to say, ''You can take it If you think proper,
but IL you DO shall consider il very small for the
proprietor Of Rrst-clam boarding house." The
consequence L. that the landlady blushingly
declines the money, although ut the same time
she is aware that she cannot afford to feast out
s,ders gratuitously. And 90 the imposition goes
Oh from bad 70 worse, until il becomes intolera-
ble and the landlady Is placed in the condition
the young gentleman boarder was, when he re-
marked that If his landlady was not able to keep
boarding house, she had better sell out to some
one that Was She is forced TO sell out or is sold
out, for the profts-Heaven knows they are
small enough at bcst-which she might have
made, had been appropriated to feeding invited
guests-invited, not by herself but by her very
liberal and generous-hearted boarders
A boarder has no more right to invite an ac-
quaintance to dine or sup with him at his board
nghouse, with the calculation Of not paying for
the meal, than he has to put his hand in the
pocket Of his landlady and take out twenty-five
cent piece or half dollar 1t is virtually one
and the same thing Her money is taken when
her moneys worth 10 eaten. What matter tho
the landladv refuses to take pay for the extra
meal-she does so from courtesy. or probably
with the vain hope Of securing another boarter
-one who having partaken Of the feast, will not
rest content until he has become regular board
er. Let her not be deceived by any such false
hopes, but press the money into her hand as il
you were really in earnest. II is her right-make
her 70 feel this, and that she has no right to
fuse the profcred amount pittancc thought be-
When you do this, invite your friends as often as
you please, and you will find the accommodations
of your boarding house increase, with the smiles
on the face Of your landlady, who will look upon
you as mode. young man, and be ready to rec
ommend you to all her young and accomplished
female acquaintance, not forgetting her mar
riageable daughter, a marvellousiy proper
young man, ''very handy to have about the
house." When this state of affairs exists, board
ing.houses will cease to be styled 'lvery stables
for yonng men, but correspond nearer to the
home Of ones childhood, to be respected and not
spoken lightly Of.
A Presidential DIxXER.--"Occasional,r in a
late letter from Washington to the Press de-
scribes dinner at the White House as follows: