The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-26
NEW. YORK BOARDING. HOUSES.


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NEW. YORK BOARDING. HOUSES.
In the absence OF more important Hlatte,r, we
propose to present to our readers fsw remarks
ON tho subject Of Now York boarding; houses to-
eetber with soene or two taken from actual life
by our own special artist (ourselveJy the spot.
Our resdera need not fear that it lie our intention
to tire them with an essay on ."the subject we
have chosen" For several reasop we refrain from
30 doing, tho chief OF which is that we dare not
lift the veil too boldly, lest We reveal to the eyes of
an astonished, istaid and virtuous public, sights
and scenes that snaok 80 excessively Of the most
glaring immoralities, that they can not fail to
shock the modesty of Bald virtuous multitude. 1t
is therefore, not our intention to REFER except by
illusions the vaguest OF tho vague, to tho extraor-
dinary state Of moral, or rather immoral, deprav-
ity that has been brought about in New York
through the sgonoy Of the indiscriminste COM
mingling of the different olasses of society in the
many boarding houses of the cily ~" g., :, ,....
/, We viii suppose thatthe reader is seated by our
aide at the dining table OF a firstcass respects
BILE boarding house, No.r-, West Fourteenth
street. Immediately opposite to us is seated a
young and beautiful lady, whom We regard with
emotions OF, admiration, mingled with sympa-
Disqualification for her grace and bewitching
beauty sympathy FOR the lovely young widow 80
recently bereft Of her bosom's lord: or this Wwe
ar we'll assured, ihasmuoh the lady has ,her-
self, on the very morning Of this day, informed US,
with crystal tears in her beautiful doye-ike eyes
that said bosom's lord had. o, few months ago,
gons to that bourne from which no traveller is
ever furnished With a return ticket. The lady
| speahbAinI silaery tones and meliflpous accents
her voice strikes upon our ear. She is conversing
with friend who sits next, to her. Tho topic oil
conversation is the latest Paris fashions, and wo
are astounded at hearing our widow referring, in
distinct and unistakable language, to letter she
had that morping received from her husband in
Paris. 0uery.--Is, the lsdy's husband defunct ,,or
not1 Has slieps husband at all r. Did she ever
have o bosomis Iprd2i 9 '": 90: - 49,, as
Aittle farther off from our scat is young wife,
| who has seen upwards of fifty (5O) summers, and
| who may once have possessed beauty and set OF
teeth, but who certainly possesses neither at pre-,
sent. The toothless lady,is exceedingly jealous
Of tho glapces that her young and simpleton-fac:
ed husband is throwing over his plate ofasparagus
at the lovely married widow above referred to.
The stupid-faoed young husband has already re.
ceiyed - soto ,poce scolding on account OF
his having come home on the night previous
rather under the influence of ardent spirits. b.
Az tAo cApiou1o Ut1o taDt6 IL 66AGeQ q very
fat lady, and next to her thin and respectable
looking gentleman with grey beard The gentle
man with the grey beard ia the husband of the
fat lady. The fat lady, calling a waiter, asks fes
a pieOe'tof roast beef when the ,neat is duly
brought, and the following interesting scene is
! enacted: f.
FAT LADY (Tith slight elevation of her mas al
protubersnce) This meats not at to eat.
| WAITER-Mdrm 'I's' .'h-a. - .'. tn-.,.
FAT LADf!-I BAY this meat is spoiled-go and
get me another piece. =
| WAITER-Yes, marm. .!>',-
| FAT LADY-Waiter. l.. i'ItiyE..y. -.
WAITER (returning)--Yes, marin. ~
FAT LADy--det me piece taken FROM differ
WAITER Yes, marm!. EXIT waiter. :
| The waiter returns with the melancholy inteIli
gence That there is no other animal in the kitoh
en- -the fat lady indignant, again eleyates he,
nose the landlady still more indignant, secs the
expressive nose, and taking offence thereat; in
forms the fat, lady that the meat is good, ant
that she-the fat lady-is an old hag; aud pro-
ceeds, furthermore, to compliment the thir
gentleman by informing him that he is "a good
for-hothing old losfer Of a gray beard" go. &c
The guests are surprised and, indignant the
gray-bearded gentleman grows pale with passion
and his neither lip quivers Ia FoRREsT-the fa
lady becomes terrified, then subjugated- d-ant
she and her husband retreat in haste from thu
table. ,'A - - ..s' Il i's' 49,.
Such scenes as these do happen at times-dit
happen positively to our own experience-inia a re-
spectacle 2r) boarding house in New York City
not long ago. We do not mean to imply that there
are no really respectable private boarding houses
in New York City; but'we do mean to warn ou,
readers against going board hunting in NewYorl
blindfolded, taking for granted the rsspeotabilit,
OF the house from that Of the location: /
Far be it from us to cast any reflection upon thf
ladies Of New York--yrtpe is. virtue wheresoeye,
it be found, and lady is lady, be she Northern
or Southern; but we have no hesitation in WARNING
all ladies, both Northern and Sou, ,srn, against
too incautious and indisoriminal, intimacy with
the swarrns OF adYentnresses aud female impostors
who throng the boarding houses Of New York, and
srnuggle themselves into the society Of the pnre
minded and incredulous. Ihns
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THE SILK SPIDER OF ,souTH CARo11HA.-Dr,' b.
O..W1LpER. late Surgeon OF the Fifty-ffth Repi
ment Massachusetts Volunteers (coIored), gave
the hrst OF four Lectures upon the above subject
in Boston, Tuesday evening. The Journal gives
the following brief but interesting synopsis: Iu.m
The first OF this species Of spider WAS discov.
ered by the lecturer, on the north end of Foly
,a' nsasnd' %hhe IN camp there in August, 1868. Ia
one hundred and fifty yards Of yellow silk. 'The,
next year another officer wound from thirty anil
aers three thousand four hundred and efohtv.
four yards, or nearly two miles OF the silf. A
single thread OF this was strong enough to sus.
tain weight Of from forty-four to one hundred
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