Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-08-07
From the New York IndeTendsnt-
HOUsE-K EEPING BY DOUBLE
ENTRY.
BY ROSA PALMER.

Last year l lived in a tenement-house In Broad
way. 1t has since been rebuilt, and all its oc-
cupants are scattered. So it will do no harm to
write about them, as / am going to- There
were more than fifty families on the first floor.
They were birds, in a great salesroom, with
elaborate cages and other fancy wire works
Birds in their little nests agree;" and their
agreement, their happiness, their heavenly morn.
ing music, were the glory of that tenement
house. On the second floor lived dressmRker
and milliner, the aristOOracy of the house.
The third floor was rented by representatives of
the middle class of tenants, an actor and an ac-
tress who were married to each other, and an
insurance agent who was married to somebody
else. On the fourth or "top floor" as our
grocer would always call.it, was the tiers etat,
lady artist with her family, horse.car con-
ductOr with his family, and two poor teachers,
Sissy and l. am going to write something
about how we two lived, because l have often
been told that eau do good by such narrative.
and because l believe it. There are some wo-
men who do not have to economize. l am not
/ writing for them. There are some women who
think they ought to receive the same remunera-
tiOn for everything they do that men would re-
ceive in their place. hope l am not writing
for them. And I'll tell you why. A man has
to spend more than q woman. If he is married,
no matter how poor he is, he usually has to
support servant. If he is single. no matter
how poor he is, he has to take ever 80 many
young ladies to ever so many places, and pay
for their tickets, Another fact which has more
to do with my subject is, that man can't save
ss a woman can. II he is invited suddenly to a
party, can he run into store on his way up
town, hasten home with bundle in his hand,
and before the party hour make for himself a
new white vest Z l should think not should
think be can't wear anything without sense Of
what it cost ready. made. Another fact which
has most Of all to do with my subject is, that a
man can't board himself A woman can. No
two women can. That is what mean when l
say Housekeeping by Double.entry There
were two of US, and We both entered into it, as
follows.
1st How cheaply we lived. Our rent wasn't
much, because the house was old and shabby
Our fuel wasn't much, because the room was
small. 1t was so small that l thought for a
while we had no space for any stove but nap
tia stove. So consulted veteran oil-striker.
He said, Naptha is dangerous stuff, and wo-
men had better not have anything to do with it "
There are some women who would have takan
this as an insult to their sex. | shall never
write for them. They may experiment with nj
tro-glyeerine and the cyanide of kakodyle, il
they want to, just because men do. thanked
the veteran, and went up and down the Sixth
: avenue till found the smallest coal-range you
ever saw, with two griddles and an open CRATE
A naptha stove would have cost twelve dollars
: This one only cost three. II was secondhand
but the soap-stone lining was not burned out
Somebody had evidently sold it because it Wai
too small. It was such darling that ! wanted
to take 1t up in my arms. Aud ! did, to sset il
on the table, where it stood while tackled down
the mating. We tried to burn coke but il
comes in boulders, and isn't the thing for a very
small stove. So We bought bushel of nut-coal