The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-05
How an Artist Live. In New York.

The New York correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial says:
Dick is sober, hard working, good fellow in
pursuit Of fame and riches as painter: He
found il necessary, il he wished to improve in his
art, to be where art is recognized aud sustained
where he would rub against her artists, and be
subject TO criticism. He showed me his snug
little parlor, with one good bedroom and one
Indifferent bedroom adjoining. Now don't you
go TO trashy eating house," he CRIED "where
all your money will be taken for headache at 6
p. NJ, commonly called dinner. IL you want to be
made sick Of that SORT of thing, get into the
kitchen of a first class hotel, and see the heaps Of
filth that rats and c0ckroaches run over. And
don't go to eenteel boarding house, where you
have all the miserable Formally of a hotel,
with hash for breakfast and bread pudding at
noon. There are great many pleasanter means
of suicide, in which you can leave something to
your heirs, than either. Do as have done--look
up furnished apartments, with cafes in the neigh
borhood. and go out to your meals. Then you
have chance for your lives. II one place don't
suit, why spread your wings and tail and fit of
to another. Now see, here's pretty little paror
up only two fights-that bedroom give up to
Mrs. Easel and my daughter Emma. In this
closet repose my weary limbs; | am out be-
times. The girl fetches up the milk that is left
every morning. for and in consideration Of two
benevolent French baker brings me, for
the same. Butter | have ip q crock outside
the window, purchased of Corwin & Co., grocers,
at the heavenly rate of sixty cents pound. Bat
it is fresh and tasteful a maden's blushing
cheek. In a tin canister have ground coffee
from the same firm, pure and unadulterated Java.
C0rwin has reputation TO sustain and con-
science to consult. put on my homeopathic tea
kettle with stew-pan. attached TO an ungodly
long handle. put on the milk 70 boil then TO
three heaping tabe-spoonsfut Of coffee pour
three cups of boiling water. This drps pleasantly
as rain upon the roof. through the French coffee
pot" " Damn French coffee-pot." :" Oh, GER
tainiy, If IL Is any relief TO you remember you
have sad memories connected with Paris and
French conee-pot. But mine is a success. do
not toss oat the window, du consraire, as the
Frenchman remarked when asked il he liked
bayonets. After time / announce coffee
made, and the blooming young damsel, only heir
and hope of the house of Easel. trips out. and
after the paternal salutstion, spreads the snowy
cloth. and We sit down TO our frugal repast that
cost the little family all of fifty cents"
How about lunch and dinner"
Listen. take a chop or a dozen raw down
town. Ny little family, believe. follows the
bent of the female mind, and suspect it OF tea
aud toasted buns. For dinner, ali that is the
great event Of the day, return from my labprs
at 8. seek the solace Of domestic life, and
toothsome dinner. Ny conscience is at rest-my
digestion is alive. Madam and the maiden Easel
array themselves in gorgeous attire. ADD we 60
forth unto cafe Francdise, (oricqfaP Peabody, now,
sold a picture, we aspire to Delmonico's. We
have pottsge, we indulge in fillet; we have
one vegetable. or two. q salad. and then bit Of
cheese. and the slightest taste OF pastry. And
then If the private Golfers Of the State. known
Essel's pocket sre full, we hasten away to the
opera. or Wallack's, or some other resort OF the
light and frivolous. And so ends the day."