The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1886-05-22
CITY LoDGINo-Aou5E DISCOMFORT.
Trouble with the Servants-A Man With
out "A observation-disclosures.

Trouble with the Servants-A Man With
out Breakfast-IIe!piess.
There is one el ment usually wanting to
your comfort in a 10 Lying house in New
York breakfast is a III .licult sub ect, and
a man Is helpess being until he has had
breakfast You can not at all rely on the
resources Of q lodging house at this point
I he truth is that the business OF keeping
bache ors alive in this city Is in a period OF
transition. The old.fashioned boarding
houses have been abandoned by many Of
them for lodgings, but the proprietors OF
these houses have not yet learned bow to
take care OF their charges In London .
very large part of the population have
from time immenorial taken care or dodgers,
an notwithstanding thu abuse heaped upon
this class Of persons they are Usually very
decent people, and they succeed in giving
you ba Oh and eggs or sole, with good tea
There Is bell, and 1t Is answered by .
young woman, who Is always civil, and Is
sometimes attractive. She is now and then
extremely pretty; bat, no matter how
pretty she is, you may send her out for o
pot OF beer. After the bull DOING you un-
dergo in an American establishment Of the
kind, the civil and good nature Of these per-
sons are most grateful The prettiest Of
them ever saw would answer my bell half
do en- times in morning without any
back looks i once rang Tor fork which
she ha forgotten; she quickly returned with
it and laid it down, with the remark: my
cad II never learn to save my 'eels."
But this is not at all the condition Of
thing, in New York. The lodging house
proprieto' in most cases refuses to give you
breakfast at all II it is given you it is
usually intolerable, the bread, butter, eggs
milk, and coffee, being all bad But in the
acquisition of this breakfast, such as it is
the lodger will encounter difficulties The
theoretical intentions of the landlord or
landlady are thwartad by the Instructions
thrown in the way by the servants; the tao
tics OF Mr.. Parnell is initiated by his coun-
trywomen to good purpose. 1t is difficult
to find out whose business it Is to look after
you; you are re- erred by one domestic to
another. The Germans are just as bad-so
very unlike the kind, serviceable people Of
the fatherland But, however, we'll dis
posed the domestic may be, it is often ex-
tremely difficult to communicate with
them The room has no bell or il there is
one it does not not work. But II there is
bell, and it Is in good order, it may require
some hardihood to ring it. II it becomes
necessary to establish some kind Of com
munication with the domestics your position
is, indeed, helpl IS one; they appear to DO
as jealousy secluded as the occupants of az
Oriental harem
And yet it is quite necessary to COM
Portable and decent existence that you
should not be compelled to go out Of the
house for your breakfast. 1t may be very
well to go out now and then. On warm
and bright days it is occasionally amusing
to breakfast at club or a restaurant, But
what can be mo- Q unpleasant than to be re-
quired to face a blizzard ON an empty
stomach Or it may be 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