Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-10-14
HOMES IN NEW YORK uO-
Tells.

My name IS BrOTn-W llliam Brown as
! sign myself, Bill Brown, as am called
in the Swamp. / am no connection of
Brown Brothers. | was raised 10 Vermont.
and on the death of my father, who was a
cattle breeder in that State, came II this
city and began business, with what sue.
GEES the Bank of Commerce, where | kent
my account, can tell A few weeks ago |
met Letitia Smith, daughter of Jacob
Smith. also of Vermont. She struck me AS
likely girl, and to cut long story short,
| married her.
We went 20 live at the St. Thunder Ho-
tel. wanted to keep house, having an
eye to my own comfort but Lefty declared
that her health was not equal TO the task
and her mother asked me, ia fierce mau-
Der, if | wished TO be the means of making
. her chidless. So we went to the ST. TbuU-
der, and hired room up two pair IF stairs
fronting on an agreeable courtyard. The
rom was pleasantly furnished. There
was patent spring bed, which ratified
when you got into it, aud when you turn
ed round In it, as il to give public notice
Another uan shed There vas sofa
covered with yellow and purple brocatelle,
| rather worn at the edges, but otherwise
very gnJgeUus. 1t likewise was spriug
concern, and | regret to state that some OF
the wires which were connected with the
springs had given way-a fact dIscav-
cred at the cost of a splendid pair of pan
! taloons There was a table Of rosewood
which, by an ingenious cOutrivance of pa
! per uuder two Of the feet, could be made
( t. stand steady; and there were four chairs
| of the most elaborate work man ship, cost
| ing fourteen dollars ariece-as | found.
| when, on the second day of our stay at the
/ St. Thunder, broke two of them 10 try
( ing to lean back, and found them calm v
/ set down in that weeks bill. There was
| also a bureau, with a key to the drawers
| as Lefty was informed en- or arrival; We
| C ngratulated ourselves on haviag safe
| place to put cur yaluables, but our salts
| faction was impaired by the discovery, on
the following day, that the keys to all the
buresux at the ST. Thunder were the
same.
Opposite US, across the courtyard, lived
! bachelGr-a member of the Corn Ex-
change, believe--a person much given t.
| abluticns, and therefore commendable, but
negligent in respect of the trifling matter
of closing his shutters, which compelled
me to interdict Lefty from visits to our
windows before ten A. NJ. Next to him
lived family whose children, ranging
from fo.sr to ten, were famous for acrobatiC
feats, such as leaning out of the window
till nothing but their heels remained in,
side and then calling to their relatives t
bear witness to their dexterity.
Our dearest neighbor-the lady who
made such funny jokes after she had gone
to bed. and whose husbands appreciation
thereof kept Lefty and me awake for many
an hour-called upon US in formal way
the week we arrived, and desired better
acquaintance. On being informed thai
Lefty was a bride she screamed:
LA what fun You don't say !" much
| to our little wife'S embarrassment, as she
saw no particular fun" in the situation.
But when Mrs. Beldrum observed thai
the stout gentleman who accompanied her
to breakfast was her fourth, and that her
third was in California, and her second in
Texas, the embarrassment became very
serious indeed. l suggested privately il
Whisper, Tor We could bear what passed il
Mrs. Beldrum's room-to Lefty that she
should not become intimate with Mrs. B.
whereupOn my angel of wife, vino was {
perfect dove on ordinary occasions, farce
up, and asked me if l wished to sever hel
{ on the only sympathetic heart sh,
found Mrs. Beldrum in my loom when
went home. She occasionally assisted
at the performance of my toilet.
On the other side lived an Englishmsr
with his wife and sister. The three oc-
cupied the same room-whether from econ
omy or no, / cannot say. The English
man was a good fellow, though he treated
his bis badly; he and bis wife used tc
quarrel a good deal, aud the sister always
took the husbands part This led 20 a
crying it on the part Of the wife, which
led to kissing, and then the sister laughed
a good deal, and sometimes the English
man swore at her, at which the wife quar-
relied with him again, and then the British
e. would console himself with his brand
bottle. knew all these things from the
fact that / could hear wFat passed in their
room as plainly as if had been there
Besides Mrs. Beldrum, there was a Mrs
Evans at the st. Thunder. She soon wor.
ried me dreadfully. She became my wife.
bosom friend, and controlled her entirely
One Gay that come home with headache
at noon, Mrs. Evans insisted on my going
down stairs to the smoking room--as. she
said, men had no tight to interfere with
their wives privacy during the day. So
added my boots to the row which form the
ornaments OF the ground-foor bay window
of that famous hotel, and did not dare to
return up stairs till four O'Clock. NY
headache was very severe; and four or
FIVE cocktails, which, in my despair, took
to cure it, rather made it worse.
In the evening l wanted to retire. Let
ty looked rather pale and nerved. Blu,
Mrs, Evsns and Mrs. Beldrum observed
that they we're all going to the opera, and