Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1886-05-07
CITY LooslNo-House DISCOMFORT.
Trouble with the servants-A Man with
out Observation-Disclosures

Trouble with the servants-A Man with
out n observation-disclosures
There Is one element usually wanting TO
your comfort in n lolging-house In New
York Breakfast Is a difficult sub, ect, aud
a man Is helpless being until he has had
breakfast You can not at all rely on tho
resources Of = lodging house at this point
Tho truth Is that the business OF keeping
bachelors alive In this city is in period %
transition The old fashioned boarding
houses have been abandoned by many OF
them for lodgings, but the proprietoss OF
these houses have not yet learned bow 10
take care Of their charges In London a
very large part OF the population have
from time immenorial taken care OF dodgers,
and Notwithstanding the abuse heaped upon
tSis class Of persons they are usually very
decent people, and they succeed In giving
you bacon and eggs, or sole, with good tea
There Is a bell, and Il Is answered by
young woman, who Is always civil, and Is
sometimes attractive She Is now and then
extremely pretty but no matter how
pretty she Is, you may send her out for a
pot OF beer. After the bull doing you I'M
dergo In an American establishment Of the
kind, the civil and good nature Of these per-
sons are most grateful Tho pretricst OF
them ever saw would answer my bell half
dozen times In n morning without any
back looks ! once rang for fork which
she had forgotten she quickly returned WITH
il and laid II down, with the remark: ny
'eedn never learn 20 save my 'eelS"
But this Is not at all the condition o:
thing, IN New York. Tho lodging house
proprieto- in most cases refuses 10 give you
breakfast at all II Il is given you II Is
usually intolerable, the bread, butter, eggs,
milk, and coffee, being all bad But in the
acquisition OF this breakfast, such as Il Is,
the LOGGER will encounter difficulties The
theoretical intentions OF the landlord or
landlady are thwarted BY tho Instructions
thrown in the way by the servants; the tao
tics Of Mr.. Parnel Is initiated by his coun.
trywomen 10 good purpose II Is difficult
TO find out whose business 10 s 20 look after
you: you are referred by one domestic 10
another The Germans are Just as bad--so
very unlike thu kind, serviceable PEOPLE OF
the fatherland but, however, well dis
posed the domestic may be, IL Is often cx-
tremely difficult 90 communicate with
them The room has no bell or II there Is
one II doss not not work. But II there Is n
bell, aud Il Is In good order, IL may require
some hardihood TO ring It II II becomes
necessary 90 establish some kind OF com.
municatton with the dotnestics your POSITION
L. indeed, helpl ~ one, they appear 70 bc
as jealously secluded as the occupants Of an
Oriental harem
And yet IL Is quite necessary 70 n com
Portable and decent existence that you
should not 10 compelled 20 60 out Of the
houss for your breakfast IL may lie very
well to 20 out now and then On warm
and bright days Il Is occasionally amusing
10 breakfast at n club or restaurant But
what can be moro unpleasant than % he re-
quired TO face blizzard on an empty
stomach. Or It may b. that the day opens
with one of those heavy and steady down.
pours which are Characteristic OF this eli
mate. The dark and dripping world says,
mournfully: Thou hast no breakfast -
New York Times