Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-01-16

rooms one must climb TO the top sto-
nv.
We've been talking about trying
life in n Flat. We hunted the city
over. The doll rooms in the S35
flats would do for half the family, but
the larger half thought that while am
occasional cramp might be borne, for
regular, every day business il
would get monotonous. so they
were crossed off the list. At last we
found something altogether desira-
BILE, except. The rooms were
sunny, airy, well-lighted and clean
they were as large as necessary, and
enough of them so we could ask our
friends to ''bide with us" when they
come this way. We could have them,
unfurnished, Of course, for 5000 the
first year, and 500 for each of the
two succeeding years. So far so good,
but-there were forty-eight steps in
the three long flights of stairs TO get
to them, and who could guarantee me
strength to go up these stairs for
three years? Leased for that time the
only way out of it would be to die.
So the pretty, sunny fiat must be
some other woman's portion, not
mine. In some of the houses suites
of six rooms rent for $500. In the
Tudor, the SWEETEST of all, they run
from that sum to $500. These
houses have elevators so, too, do
some of the less expensive ones.
"RooMs TO RENT" is placarded in
the windows of a majority of the
houses in the city, and not a few of
those who have no sign out let rooms
"to accommodate people, or TO
friends" Such persons usually adj
vertise and may be reached through
the newspaper office, but they keep
mysteriously in the background lest
they lose social standing by showing
the necessity for discussing expens-
es. More style may, as rule, be
found in the houses of this class, but
for comfort and courteous treatment /
prefer to risk my chances with the
woman who is not above her business,
but is, at the same time a lady.
Rooms run from two dollars
week up. The two dollar room is de-
cidedly up, too; away up against the
roof, nearer the sky than i want to
go unless my wings are well sprouted.
We found the other sort of up in two
pretty, handsomely furnished rooms
offered us at S25 per week. That
does not include board, remember.
For that you can make choice at from
three and a half to eight dollars per
week, each.
Boston is full of students who live
in furnished rooms, getting their
meals where they can best. Five
clean faced, bright, intelligent looking
Young men who take their meals
where we are now boarding, had at
tracted my attention by their quiet,
gentlemanly demeanor. Having oc-
casion TO ask a question of the cook,
l was surprised, when the kitchen
door was opened, TO see one Of those
young men washing dishes. Later
made some inquiries of the man who
runs the dining-room, and he told me
that one is law student. the other
student at the medical college. The
latter had abundant means until his
fathers death, when he found there
was nothing left to enable him to go
on with his studies already begun.
Being made of good stuff he set about
finding a way, and after earning
enough to defray room rent and Incl
dental expenses he offered to do suf-
ficient work in the kitchen to pay for
his meals. His offer was accepted.
Can any one doubt the future success
of any young man who is so eager TO
thoroughly fit himself for his duties
that he is willing to do the work of
common servant in the kitchen 10 ac-
complish his purpose. Accustomed
all his life to the luxurious surround
ings which wealth can give, he brave
ly puts the past behind him, grapples
with the difficulties poverty places in
his way, and demonstrates that oh
stacles are only things to be over
come.
The law student pays for his meals
in the same manner, and, mark my
word, those two young men will make
their way in the world, and it will be
a clean, honest, upright way.
TRUFAN.