New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-07-23


wants, and watching for some sign of re-
turning health. He is never left at night in
darkness, loneliness, praying for daylight to
end his WEAKNESS, for sunset always finds
his lamp replenished, with comfortable
fire in the CRATE and a quiet goodnight
whispered feeliDgly. She is never known
to question washerwomen on their way up
or down stairs as to whether their bills were
paid in such and such rooms, and she scorns
making friends with one lady inmate TO
chit-chst on the failings CT another. She
does not object to washing being done in her
rooms, but ironing is strictly forbidden,
her feelings being peculiarly sensitive with
regard to the polished surface of her tables.
Backing boots, according to the rules and
regulations of the house, as shown forth in
fancy type on a card nailed to the inner
side Of the door of each room, is also pro-
hibited, for the practice destroys the Ger
ners of chairs, and is apt to rub out the
edges of even the best upholstered sofa or
lounge. She never comes to you to borrow
money to meet her landlord, and afterward
finds other uses for the loan in the shape of
bonnets, boned turkey, and ice cream.
She never apologies tor the meagreness
of her table by grooming over the poorness
of the markets since the war; that she
doesn't know indeed if beef ever will get
''roundn again; that mutton is entirely off
its legs, and can not be had for love or
money; that "butter" remains "frm," she
supposes, OF account of the cold snap, and
fnr sha ~ 81 Ill
out anything Dut an unsavory odor. She
seldom, for the sake of appearances, in.
structs the walters to ask the guests if they
VIII have a piece of chicken, when she
knows full well that only one meagre fowl,
land that the oldest inhabitant OF some
neighboring COOP" was provided for the
entire house, and then inform you that
there has been such rush for roast chicken
to-day that it is all out. Her oyster soup on
Sundays is not made out of fat scraps and
the addition of the bivalves studiously for.
gotten, and her buildings "reviving in
ones memory the vigorous appetite of boy
ish days, are solid substantial specimens of
culinary art, and not mixed in that washy
consistency rendering it doubtful as to
whether an inward or outward application
of them would have the same beneficial
effect on the stomach. Her coffee, of the
priest Java, perfumes the crowded break
fast room with its aroma, fragrant as
pasture of spring flowers after an April
shower. She never murmurs at your bring.
ing home friend to share your bed for
night, neither does she charge for his
logging IN your weekly OIL, out with KIND,
Woman4y soAcitude Tor his comfort, pro-
vides an extra towel, and has his boots
olackened ready for use in the morning
She never makes aJfsead OF you in order to
load you down with errands up town, or to
escort her country cousins to the Academy
OF Music Saturday matinee. She abbors
rat terriers, out IS Mr. Canine Barker, "a
regular paying ooarder," seems to think the
world oil an ugiy little brute tnat follows
snarlhg al MS heeis' she good-naturediy
relralnS from oIenulng eltner tne uog OF us
MASTER ou' Will occa3lonaliy' WIN her own
usilcSVe DanuS' PFoVlue Oh tne sly some tlu'
oits Tor It's dinner she Is seldom heard'to
RAISE her voice ABOVE That pitch where mel
ody ceases and dlscord begins, and even in
her most angry moments with a domestic
or ooarder, never loses command OF either
language OF tAe tone OF utterance necessary
10 assure them Oh the presence OF a lady
she desplses the use OF intoxicating drink
IN man or woman, out al christmas ana
New rear no lalr Aanu throughout the
"hole iand would mix more creamy egg
nogg or deal II out with greater hoerallty
ami good WILL and pleasanter' sweeter
way OF "innlhgiy wishing you happy
new year Harui u'"s' win us W.T. luh'
n"HiO'' anu JoFlau'y' generaily turns her
mouse 4n.o perfect panuemonlum' ELS,
uemohs, Kings Queens ana characters OF
al grades throng her rooms, committing
through Vne customary incense OF the DAY
an xmas OF PeccaolLioes' IN ulrect opposl-
tlon 70 Aer known rules ana reg ulations'
win good'humeFea smile she quietly JOINS
IN tne universal merrlment' sne never tries
10 sounu tne oepth Oh the aneotlon oil her
ooaFue[S Wy lnF1'Ans me Dounues Oh oanta
Claus in hanging out stockings whose capa-
eious dimensions would hang loosely on
even the lat LADY at Barnums. She does
not RAISE the price OF BOARD on account OF
the scarcity OF potatoes or the anticipated
rush OF visitors to the state FAIR She does
not OBJECT to few barrels OF coal being
carried into your room in spite OF the carpet
on the moor, neither does she ornament the
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