The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-01-04
Boarding and housekeeping aedI.

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calIy Considered.
Hairs Journal Of Health, which is
always replete with suggestions on
health for the masses, contains the fol-
lowing Striking contrast between the
troubles arising from housekeeping
and those attending boarding-houses
and hotels:-
| Every winter the number increases
4 in large cities, of persons who, having
become tired of village or country life,
or of keeping house in the city, look to
| boarding at hotels or private houses as
kind of elysium; nothing to do but
eat and sleep and walk about; while
there is blissful deliverance from the
annoyances OF incompetent, faithless
and blarneying servants, who, when
| you engage them, profess a perfect
knowledge and skill in everything
which pertains to the kitchen, and yet
within week show that they know
little or nothing beyond the
even kindle fire without 1t costing
about three times as much as it ought
| to; they cannot bake a loaf of bread fit
to eat; their pastry would kill a plow-
man in week; and even when fur
nished most lavishly with the very best
materials, have neither scnse nor system
even how to cook a potato. But in es-
Gaming these veXations, others greater
than these soon present themselves in
boarding-housel life, and among the
first is the giving away of health, the
body becomes sleepy and dulli the
mind loses its elasticity, and soon be-
| gins to waste itself in worrying about
the merest trifiesi very little incon-
venience is magnified, and looms up in
mountainous proportions. One of these
| called on us recently, lady, well edu-
Gated, elegantly dressed and in perfect
taste, and-merely to look at-any man
might be proud to call her his wife.
The moment she entered our office she
began to whine at an amazing rate, de-
claring that she was in state of perfect
physical and mental prostration. 1t
was very natural for us to inquire into
the cause of such a hopeless
condition. She was boarding, A gene
rous husband had surrounded her
with everything calculated to afford
her enjoyment. She had no children
| and no servants to annoy her. Her
husband was at his place of busi-
| ness from 10 a. m. to p. M, and the
remainder of his time was at her ser
vice. She went to the races, attended
| the opera, visited her friends; and yet
she pretended she was in perfect
state of physical and mental prustra-
ton.
Into this gulf of perdition will they
arrive at no distant day who arrange to
| go boarding as soon as married instead
of going to housekeeping. A more un-
profitable mistake cannot possibly be
made by the newly married; il is more
mischievous in winter than in summer,
for in warm weather the young wife can
walk on the street, or drive in the park,
or visit among her friends, but IN the
winter they are cooped up in one room
and spend hours at the window-pane,
gazing listlessly out upon the street
afraid of the cold, yet detesting the
confinement, while great part of the
time, the husband being at his business,
the mind of the young wife is the prey
of thousand disquietudes. At one
time she thinks her friends are slight
ing her; at another, she becomes envi-
GUS of others who seem to be able to
dress more elegantly than herself, and
begins to make unfavOrable compari-
sons to herself and to her husband as
to their worldly condition, and she be-
comes moody, or petulant, and COM
plains, and the husband wakes up to a
new discovery, and as unwelcome as it
| IS new-that his wife is not happy; not
| happy in herself, not happy in her So
cial position. No man can doubt that
in going to housekeeping, the prospect
of "a happy and thrifty married life is
Enthusiastically more promising than in
the health and dheart-destroyingp practice
of living the first - months OF married
| life in hotels and boarding-h houses.
| Very few young wives are safe in any
| public associations. The papers abound
in cases of intidelity to marital engage
| mentS by lately married girls being
thrown into the society of men of leis-
ure, their husbands being engaged in
their business pursuits. The mere
! dandy, loafer, or gentleman of leisure,
has every opportunity of taste and
n nd Il .a1n g a..
mere man of business, to turn away a
woman's heart from her husband by the
mere fact of causing her at first, with
out duplicating himself, to draw un-
| favorable comparisons against her hus-
band as to personal tidiness. One of
the most splendid weddings that had
ever taken place then, in New York,
resulted in a separation, and a broken
heart, and premature grave within a
| few years, by the wife's continued
twitting her husband, when they
were walking on Broadway, or on the
selection of his apparel. "Why don't
you bow as Mr.. Blank does?" ellis
gloves are in perfect taste; yours are
such as countryman would select"
These things grew upon her, while
they alienated him, and living as they
did at the finest hotel in the city, with
uncounted gold at their command, and
nothing to compel their attention away
from trifiing things, their minds dweit
upon them, magnified them, allowed
them TO see nothing else, with the re-
suit of a separation under circumstan-
ces WI ich were infinitely worse than
death, for then the grave would have
closed over every sorrow, whereas life
was spared, with its long years OF agony.
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