New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-28

ever learned, are not always intelhSeht)
| and no earnest mothers who have not
stumbled some time on the same plan with
children. For our own part, while we ara glad
to see Froebels system introduced into schools
we should be much better satisfied il it were
used in every nursery, with the mother as
teacher. We are often told of the pretty pic
ture afforded by the curled and dainty dar-
Iings, who are taken under charge OF their
bonnes to tho fashionable Kindergartcns,
while at their play lessons but group OF
Door children taught at home by their mother,
who spares time from her drudgery to learn
herself as she teaches them, is much moro
significant and beautiful sight. Unfortunately,
however all mothers are not born teachers
and children, especially those who are PAM
pered and too tenderly cared for at home, re-
quire the education given by companlonship
with other children even more than that Oh
paid instructor.
Next to the advertisers of schools, the keep
ers of boarding and lodging houses press into
notice; and here too there are suggestive lndi-
cations of the changes effected by the hard times.
There are an unusual number of private faml-
lies in desirable localities anxious to accOmmo-
date a gentleman and his wife with chambers,
board, the advantages of refined or Christian
society, a splendid receptiOn-roOm, genteel
parlOr, piano, ath-rOOm-everything, In shorr
but space for their children, if they should be
80 unfortunate as to have any. There are, too,
unlimited facilities offered on both the east and
west sides for persons wishing to rent FUR
nished rooms and to keep house therein in
the very quiet way ("lght housekeeping they
~ Oh hoo
years with single women or married pco-
pie of nice tastes and small means. An
old fashioned housekeeper OF the West or
South, with her train of servants and farm
people, her cellar stores Of great bins OF vege-
tables and hogshead of picked meat, and her
pantries full of lucent jelies and canned fruit,
would suffer o mortal shock could she have
glimpse of her granddaughter MENACE on the
upper floor of house in Forty eighth-st.
There is dainty little parlOr, which book
case, opened out, turns into bedroom ut
night. An Indian screen stands before tiny
closet, out of which comes q miniature gas
stove, little can Of Julienne soup, toy
saucepan, wherein is warmed q marvellous
fricassee, bread, pickles, fruit. The meal is
not so deep as an Iowa junkcting, nor so wide
as Virginia feast, but tits enough, it serves;
and the pretty cook instead of controlling and
feeding half dozen unruly women. turns on
hot spgot behind the Indian screen, washes
her plates and cups, takes OF her white apron,
shakes out her hair and laces, and sits down
to play the dainty hostess again, or goes out
to her work, as the case may be.
There will be found, too the usual number
of regular boarding houses of all ranks, from
the highly exclusive and elegant mansion on
Murray Hill to the neat and respectable accom-
mediation for gents" in other localities. The
terms of all are ostensbly reduced but we
fear that the too sanguine boarder will some
times find, when he sums up the weeks supply
of phosphorus, aIbumen, and legumens, that he
has not received n great deal more for his
money than he did last Winter. Even land
ladies are human, and struggle in most cases
honestly to keep a very real wolf from the
door; they are not the vampires who, accord
ing to the usual theory of gents" and their
wives, prey upon tho vitals OF society. Men
whose business is failing, or whose salaries
have been cut off this Fall, and who are nat
urally anxious to live cheaply as possible, will
find that usual rates of board are, as rule,
fair and afford but moderate percentage to
the boarding house keeper, except in cases
where "style" or "gentility" are offered as
part of the bargain, in which case, of course,
the landlady makes clear gain. But people
who put an appreciable value on style ought to
be made to pay for it.