The Durham recorder. [volume] (Durham, N.C.) 1879-19??, 1879-10-22
DURHAM, n. c, OCTOBER q, 1877
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YORK BOARDING HOUSES.
MOVING.

MoftNos
To live IN New York IL to board. To
hoard IA to---, at first. ynli move.
That Is. you g0 somewhere else. When
you get there you ray To yourself, ~
certainly Was very foolish to move, for
the other place was not quite So bud" !"
But having taken the first step In
Wrong course, you ars obliged to keep
itup, so you give notice aud ut the
end Of the week sou move again. This
time you Try to be patisntt you do really
try To reh,tth yuiir ways, and to he very
patieiit, bit In week or .H0 you dis
cover that there's something thlnpkei
for the matter--something you never
could have dreamed of, ami SO oncH
again you must move. And you do
move. What isihe consequences You
move again. For the first few years
SOU keep bh moving
SETTLING Down.
At last yoti settle down. The stoop
is el,ronically Hity. What of that ?
Tile servant gill Is slil,sIiud. What of
that? The cafpets arc giving out.
What df ihatY The furniture Is rub
bed. What Uf that 7 This beef steak Ia
tough. What ofthat7 ? Yo,i rre hal. fed.
Whit nrtliat 2 Thuse people bpptisi,e at
the table: you are brought Into rbhtael
with them three times day--il'ey are
absolutely unreasonable. What Of
that? You say you don't even zee
them; you didn't know I'LL now that
they were there. although you do pass
them the salt and the butter and
the bread every day. No matter what
may he the matter. y1u smile trans
guilty and say. I've riovsi forty nine
times In two years aid q half. i've
come back 10 the first place was la
and I've made up my mind 10 stay. !
was in place once whers you could
actually eat of the door step where the
carpets were bright. the furniture new,
hut ! sta yrd-al'soluiely starved. Then
got Into place where the beef steak
was good; tile coffee had an o,Ior oi
cofise a5out u; where wa. In the very
land of Goshen. Something was the
matter there, and I moved. Ia fact
but what's the use talking Now I've
quit moving. Now my friends; how
you are thoroughly accllnated. You
are genuine New Yorker. And far
th~rn,ore. genuine, thoroughly accii'
mated New Workers understand how u
] a. aLvut these things, lfihey were "a
sc tIttugrr rn apgifr- sse sasdsY@s-.-s-
thing Just as u osi 3. Ire when they
came To see sou. likely enough th.y
would say, " The Po"T creatar. ,i.,.ssn 4
get enough 10 eat" You see they are
not imposed upon as your cousin from
the country might be.
THOSE WHO DpS'T.
But here as elsewhere, there are per-
s0us-regular BourloIs. who never
can learn, aud they keep an moving
Till they die, some Of them In tile effort.
Then ton, as you will see nj glance.
there is q CONSTANT influx Of fresh aud
verdant spirits who, not ye. broken in,
declare that they will have things "a
suit them. aud the two together make
40 considerable an army that lisa qucs'
tIun whea sou meet anybody, whether
the question won't be, Where ar,
YOU ~ instead of How are you p
We get used TO either form Of salutatiOn
Then too, cases have beeti kncwr
where even the most resigned peisoI'
have packed their trunks aud engaged
the express.man. knew . most e.
timabIe Isdy--a christian-and sh'
spent a portion Of every day, rain oI
shine, (unless II stDrnIed dreadfuliy) IN
I" looking for board" Twas in th'
same house; n floor below, and she useC
to stop ~ aud tell me her experience
For the most part she lo"k II "ut II
hooking" Tor she did not move ofteHe
than unce In six month";. Hn,i the weel
afier size got tU one pIars, si'e hrgsn Il
look for another; then finally wen
TO Heaven, without ever finding com
Portable boarding nlace.
Some too inquisitivs an indiyidua
msy inquire, " What 10 the cornpensa
| ts,f, fsys All this 9'i rl.e auIy nnaSyar 4,
l,e given h. " The fact that you are
resident Cf Now York"
Lucy CARTER.