The New Orleans crescent., 1869-01-17
Board Wanted.
TIE TROUBLES OF YOUNG MEN IN SEARCH OF HOMES.

Board Wanted.
THE TROUBLES OF YOUNG MEN IN SEARCH OF HOMES
from the Chicago Republican,
| or the numerous troubles which affiict humanity
in this vale of tears, one of no small degree /
that experienced by thousands in looking fo
homes In great city, and in living in thos'
homes after they are obtained. The difficulties
attending house hunting, with a view of buyin,
or renting. are not few or small. and have beer
oiten dlated upon; but the unfortunate young
men VINO spend the best part of their days il
looking Tor boarding houses receive comparatively
little general commiseration. Yet theirs is his
| tory OF bright anticipations and happy hopes
gradually blghted by stern realities Of conf
oence IN humanity sorely shaken; of faith In
| newspaper advertisements utterly wrecked.
| II is fair to suppose that there are in Chicago
twenty thousand young people whose only homes
| are IN boarding-hou and who at least yearly.
and in many cases as often as monthly. anxiously
perzse the columns Of the daily papers TO learI,
where they can find shelter and sustenance.
Imagine nice young man 4" not long since
arrived from the country, with the experience and
love OF pleasant home. but with only moderate
salary ior his support. starting out after peru
sal OF the list of advertisements before him, in
searcn of quiet, respectable. not too high-priced
boarding house.
Selecting the most fashionable locations on his
list, he steps boldly into marblefront house on
one OF the great south side avenues, and makes
known his desire for accommodations He il
shown splendidly furnished chamber which he
at once decides is just what he wants and is about
10 engage at once, when he thinks to inquire the
price, and 6nds to his CONSERVATION that the
amount which would be needed to pay his board
and room rent, in other words. merely TO keen
him alive, would absorb his whole salary, leaving
him not cent with which to conform 10 the sb-
surd preJudices OF society which demand that the
human form shall be clothed, to say nothing about
leaving moderate amount OF currency for the et
ceteras OF existence.
With modified ambition the young man now
passes on 10 less preteDtious locality and finds
tnat an abiding place. which at least promises
well, can be obtained for from ten to twelve dol.
lars week, provided he has q room. mate. Not
happening to have friend who wishes to ioiu
with nlm and not caring to enter into intimate re-
lauons with strangers, he is unable to comply with
the demand, and on this score meets with unnum.
Dereo failures IN his search Finally after search
OF an hour or day, as it may happen, he finds a |
ongy house in location not very pleasant or con.
senlenI' Wnere ne can obtain board and seven.
py-nine room TO himself for the reasonable amount
OF eight dollars week. and delighted with the |
prospect OF outstanding his limited resources. he
at once takes possession. He finds however. that |
ne Is one OF curious gathering of people, mostly
young men, clerks and book keepers who pride |
themselves on their excesses and spend as thew /
go, with sprinkliBg of sober married pairs. |
a lew strong lunged children, and one or /
Two solemn old misunderstanding together a |
sort of conglomerate society with none Of the /
pleasures resulting from the existence of mutual /
tastes and interests, but thrown into each others
society at feeding time, and caring not picavune
for each others life or death. Some few of the
~ ni1eo M lamlly VIII prove congenial scqusintanees
70 MN some he will simply vote to be harmless
pores, and OF some the society will prove verv
distasteful.
The young man viii endure the dscomforts and
ack OF home attractions for a while, and then
perhaps conclude to try change. Hiring dnpv |
furnished apartment in the most aspiring story
% some business block, he will commence this |
most unsociaI and cheerless of all kinds of living
boarding at restaurants, taking one meal here and
notner mere, at the most irregular and unseason-
IDle hours, simply because il comes handy or il
economical, until finally his digestive apparatus
'egins to get demoralized, and be becomes unsc.
lal and isolated in his habits and tastes. 90
Then after time, heartily wearied of "board.
og round, he determines to try hotel. and for |
few weeks enjoys the comforts of good room |
oundant meals and the hustle and sociabihty of a
arge gathering of men of business. But with |
ne additon Of "extras," in the shape of round
harges for every time he invites friend 10 dine
Or fires. for fees TO walters. porters. chamber.
aids, call-boys. boot sblacks, etc., the regular
Ieekly bill draws severely ON his limited inan.
es, added to which is the whirl of the coming
30 . gong multitude at the great caravsnsery.
mere is little home feeling and home quiet, and
after while our hero seizes the daily papers.
axes copious memoranda, and salIies out In
arch OF "boardiDg house with all the comforts
home "a tislis nature, which it is needless
lhe same weary and discouraging round ia zone
lth varying success and according as chance |
vors him he finds himself at last entrapped into
bedlam which he is glad to leave very soon, or
apply located in comparatively comfortable
ID homelike abode, where for six months or 80
can be tolerably contented. Indeed, instances :
e on record when young men have lived in the I
me boarding house for over year. and one re. !
arkabe man has been pointed out to US who. for '
ur years, had kept the same room and the same
at at table in second-rste house, full of mis- j
llaneous livers, and still appears to be in good
alth. IL is but fair to say, however that the O,
an is bachelor, and that the landlady has a rs
lighter TO whom he gives signs of attachment. D
{ ibat, being naturally Of a somewhat cautions \.
nperament, be requires an acquaintance of A d.
ries ofyears before he can make up his mind to re
oppose matrimony. p
The young ladies of Chicago ought to consider
sorrows Of the thousands of young men who "
Am about the city seeking rest and finding none. ~
kindly make homes for the poor fellows by
rrying them Then, nicely settled in his little s'
ttsee, as snug as bug in a rug, the young man @,
the period will no more be vexed with scoldin1 I
clsdies, and rendered homesick by the dis.
nforts Of the hotel, the restaurant, and the
but will ind rest and independ.
'e and permanent abiding place.