, 1873-04-27

binoculare. e1tra-pouer achromatics war
ranted to combine the properties OF telescope
and microscope. Nothing too distant to escape
her-nothing TOO minnie INT to be overlooked. She
she wil conc half-a-dozen> times, for various
reasons, and she will observe, and make note
Of every phase OF your existence. Henceforth
you arc at her mercy. Those two little misera-
HAVE uNDosE TOD.
ALI those private little notifications and SELF
renunciations you have undergone for society's
sake are no longer hidden, but all your short
cominsn in the furnishing way. or otherwise. are
matter for comment to Mrs. Pry, and sho greatly
rojoices therein, The tarantula-bite has M
done you, and all the dear, sweet privacy OF
home is invaded and destroyed. This is the
woman who houge-hunts for the lore OF it. To
all tho rest, it is 49,
AN TEExrHEss1BLE WEAR1SEss.
We will suppose you are pareon OF moderate
means. You are passably well-suited with your
house. It is, as good IS houses in general, and
you hare quite fitted yourself into it; but your
landlord has raised your ro1t. It Is al nn1orIu-
nate failing Of landlords, which they seem ann4
paying all the house is worth, aud your income
NAV make a certain limit Of expenditure N that
I waT necessity. So you start forth on what We
once heard native Of Erin call your grum-
| mage" It is apt to become ~'
before you get through, for, 81 al dlsheasten,nS
| temper, 'nnd spoiled clothing, commend rs to
and ret list OF houses, each :of which scems to
| be- exactly the thing yon want; and, with high
hopes and elated spirits, you feel sure that the
very first will answer. You take Q cur, and ride
two or three miles, and then walk four or five
blocks to the desired locality, which proves to be
not desirable. The house is nice, but ita nur-
roundings ct quag.nire and pig-sty make you
furious with the agent, who, never having visit
cd the locality, il quite innocent OF any attompt
to impose upon your simplicity. fon don't think
Bo however, and, with very red cheeks, CON-
pressed Lips, and emphatic step, you start Tor
the next On your list, only few squares Oh.
This looks like barn Of place, but you think
you will investigate, and you ring the bell. 1
permits you to see the tip OF her nose- !:
SIS THIS HOUSE TO LETT" loan BEE TT"
are tho words which you squeeze through that
narrow space, in the hope that they may reach
her auricuiar organs: The answer is cloaing Of
mark, not in whisper, and Ere about to turn
away, when the door again opens, this time half
way, and higher grade Of Intelligence presents
itself Again you repeat the formula, and this
time are permitted to enter. There is cold VA
veniently located off the kitchen and the parlor-
floor you cannot see, because it il rented to
lady who won't let any one IN: You turn away,
and just little beyond see biz, and Sou ruah b
That viii not answer,. but you remember that
some ono told you that, about quarter Of mile
from where you them ale, there have been
t. soME NEW HOUSES BU1LDINd,
which would be Just the thing for you. You 50
to look at them. Decidedly new houac5, the lath
still guitless Of plaster, and it is now tho m1ddle
Of April. Conaigning all your kind, Woll-nform-
ed, and interested friends to the torment Of per-
petua1 house-hunting, yon are again lured on by
escent @ Lights, regular Wil:'o-the-wisps that lure
you on from the right path, and never prove to
be tho illumination you 80 fondly believe them.
At last you have
FOUND TEE RIGHT PLACE,
sense Of having ut last accomplished something
worth while, you forgive the agent all his nali8n
representations by which you we're earlier victim
ized, and, with sense OF righteous superiority
over those poor souls who are still IN search
back to the office, and, entering, with
careless, rather Indifferent air, SO
as not to seem too eager. you suggest to the at
tending clerk that "you have seen such house,
and. yon th'nk' may make 1t do. s0rrs'
BUT THAT HOUSE IS LET.
n1r. Brown signed the lease not IN hour ago,
| You arn supposedly Christian; you conned
| "Thou shalt not kill in your petticoat days,
and wondered i it applied to aes but al, al these Mr
Brown, under verdict by an astute jury OF a
q dispensation Of Providence" would be an
! altogother uncomfortable Buhject Of CONSIDERS
ton to you, in spite Of gour orthodo1 bringing
up Again the same weary round, continued for
| weeks, perhaps never finding quite the right
thing, until at last your hou8e is rented over
| your head and, like the girl who went through
the matrimonial wood and cast aside With scorn
possibly eligible offers, you take up with: r.
not AZ good as you might have had mot even as
| desirable as you 1lreudy had. .
! ALI this if you know the city we'll; are used to
| it's pecu1iarities; have been an adopted citizen
and to repel with scorn the suggestion that any
| thing about it could bo bettered- .
| :, IF You ARE A STRANGER,
| however. and have come from region OF or1ck
and stone, whore frame houses have peen e.; f.
identified with the place to forego criticism Of
! COMPARISONS, you have indeed serious under
taking before you. A frame house suggests
| Brooklyn or Dorchester to you, aud you have q
1o1dly scorn Of suburbs; so you look with con-
marble fronts. new cfty,-cheap rents OF
conrBe. One can live here, and you mildly in
| quire what the terms are. .>
COLD sHowER-BATH-
| may be invigoratiug, but it always comes with a
| ahock to the system, and the reply to your query
| has somewhat similar effect, suggestive as 1t
| is OF Madison avenue or Beacon street, to
neither OF which have you over aspircd, even IN
! TQuT most l0pe1u1 UEy6. 0ou1oH4<&k C4ona4AAcAs
you turn away, and decide that tuo-story brick
may answer: You, SO in search OF It. The
! neighborhood is not quite what you had thought
you should like, but you make the BEST Of it, and
proceed to Investigate. You ask to look at the
collar, and learn With surprise that only il GER
| tain localities in Chicago arc cellars possible
but there is 8 nice wood -shed, With door open
ing into an alley, 80 that your fuel can be easily
| placed there, without the necessity Of taking 1t
| through tho house.. Tou consent to give mp the
cellar, and look at the outbuildiug, and open The
gate lending into the alley.
] The accumulated -
| HEAPS OF AsHEs AND CARNAGE
which have been thus conveniently disposed OF
for the entire winter. greet your visual aid olfae-
| tory orgnnp and you wonder it the street-clean-
| ing ordinance does not extend to those conVen.
lent alleys. Again you return to the house, and ant
| q cumbrous store fills up . huge space IN the
kitchen. What IN awkward thing + you think;
| ~ viii soon dispose Of that;" when you are
asked By the tenant "n you would not like tc
buy it p aud you learn that this is the hot-"ases
gcnorator, and, with tho boiler, is the .' .
PRIVATE PROPERTY OF TIL TENANT.
| You mnst buy something Of the kind, Or have
| that bath-tub which has been especially pointed
out by the landlord rs being very desirable mod
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