The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-11-15
HOUSE KEEPING IN NEW YORK

A glimpse or Life In an AttIc--The
whole Expense two Dollars per
Week--HOW to Manage when short
OrFunds.
From a Ooutnlsnieatior IN ne N. 7. Post
To many who cannot afford to pay
one shilling for appearance or style, I
write. And we win commence with
packing. Supposing a room in some
decent attic or basement already secur-
ed. For good room near the heart of
the city you Will have to pay two dol
lars, at most. 1t is the utm ost that
ever pay; and little aside from the
center you may obtain one for one dol
lar, or even less. Advertising will gem
orally bring you choice. Pack every.
thing you possibly can get into them
In barrels-these are most easily ham
died by carmen, and are transported at
less cost than boxes or trunks, and, be-
sides, they serve more purposes than
the latter. You may convert barrel
into table, q chair, a closet, a cellar, a
clothes press, pantry, and various
other useful things. Then four barrels
hold half ton of coal, or trifle over.
Thus you may always know whether
you get good measure when you buy.
Shun expFessmen; seek carmen when
you would move. Buy three iron hooks
lat a cost of five cents for ally and a
curtain OF cOpperplate, If you can get
nothing cheaper that will do, and
climbing on your table, whether it be
made out OF barrel or not, punch a
tiny hole In the ceiling and screw in
your hooks, not all into one hole-ex-
cuse me, mean to punch three little
holes. These hooks are to support your
curtain, which is tied at each end to a
nail driven in sure place. You
thanks to your landlord. Outside of
your curtain you may fix up as smart
ly as you can. Inside you may stow
away everything you want to, and ar
range for youself a cooking and eating
table, bathroom and dressing
room.
Buy yourself a coal-oil cooking stove.
ifyou have to beg or borrow the money;
for by 1t you can prepare your break
tast while you are dressing, and YOU
Will have no stove to clean out, no
ashes to take care of. This, if you 90
out TO work, is a great object; and if
you only use your coal on Sundays and
in the evening, one.half ton will last
you nearly a year. This is true, as has
been proved. You may have your
coal all in barrels behind your curtain,
SO that no one shall steal it while you
are away. With two boards placed
upon two barrels, and covered neatly
with paper, you may make n table
large enough to cook on and eat on,
also to hold your water-pail. Be care
ful of your fire.
Now for the food. You can feed
yourself heartily and well, with meat,
bread and vegetables, a little fruit now
and then, and condensed milk; or, if
you like better to buy milk and water,
that-for one dollar and half a week
for less than one dollar, If the manager
Of the culinary department of "The
Brooklyn Newsboys' Lodging Roomsn
Will impnrt to you his secret,
Mot LONG ain1a Ho Fpnuo rvor,r
factory supper to several of the patrons
of that institution, and when one of the
gentlemen objected: "You feed the
boys too we'll, sir you feed the boys
too well, he made reply: eve might
give them more poorly prepared meal,
It's true; but our cook likes to have
things to taste well, and we could
scarcely feed our lads moro cheapIy.
The supper which you have eaten, gem
tlemen, is precisely such as our lads
always have. and it costs exactly three
cents head" Now, submit, need
OF the present abominable prices, when
it is possible to prepare wholesome and
sufficient meals at "three cents a head ?"
And need poor men and poorer wo-
men be required to pay all they can
earn for nero board and lodging2 No,
no, no. Better, far better, to live in an
attic room, with many barrels and one
curtain, than submit to it. You can
not, of course, expect to have porter
house steak, nor capons, nor turkey,
nor salmon included in your bill of
fare, ifttt Is to cost you one dollar or
one and half q weeks but you can
have all you really need, and can have
It when you want 1t, and as you want
it, and your health will be all the better
for it
AS for the furniture outside of your
curtain, let me suggest that n lounge
Will answer more purposes than a bed
stead. It's bed and seat both. Allyou
will need is bed-clothes and pillow,
If you are short of quilts or blankets,
make an outside cover of newsDapers
and 1t will keep you as warm as toast.
Your trunk you can cover, and It will
do for divan; and a one dollar pine
table, hounced with an old dark dress
skirt, and covered with some of the
same, will do very well in place of
black walnut or Handicapped ma
hogany. Don't use gas II it should be
In your room-you will be sure to have
to pay too much for 1t. Oil is cheaper
for you, for you pay for only what you
see.
II you are neat and orderly, and If
yOu have that which is better than gold,
"contrivance," you can make yourself
as snug and cosy as a lady-bug in a
rose: and OH the unutterable comfort
to any arding-house-tossed soul-of
having (even such) a house of ones
own, with no one in it to molest or
make afraid! IF you would like some-
thing alive in it to welcome you at
evening, have canary or a kitten.
Any objection that may occur to you in
regard to having the latter may be easi-
~ removed by the proper training of
kitty, and the proper arrangements for
her. And kitten is a most sociable
and amusing and loving little cOmpan-
ion to the lonely and torlorn.
would that every workingwoman
and every Workingman had as neat and
comtortablequ quarters us each might have
by such arrangements as ] have above
described. Their way of life in mean,
crowded bOArding-houseS is simply
shocking; and clerks and music-teach-
ers, and other teachers, and sewing
women, are all in about the same dis
tress. They pay all they can earn, and
they obtain very little or no comfort.
Why will not more of them try the
housekeeping plan2
NEW GLASSES FOR WEAK EYE-A
recent discovery, that was purely scien-
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discovery of means of relief for per-
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Some time since it was made known to
the Paris Academy of Science that a
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Of silver leaf, would enable a person to
gaze at the sub through it without the
usual painful dazzle and glare. More
recently the Academy received COM