Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12
How we went to House.
keeping.

Germany. He had not met her Bos-
ton relatives. l was as ignorant OF
the proprieties- es-Boston proprieties
and as full of romance as if had
never lived in the Club" To be
sure [ had not lived in Boston for
eighteen years, and | was just nine
teen years old. / said: "You know
it will cost no more for US to live to-
gether than it does singly.'
He said: ''a physician ought to
marry young He had been M. D.
| just two weeks.
So we set about deciding where we
should live and what we should live
on.
eve ought to settle somewhere
near our relatives and friends" said
I; 'sit would be better for practice. ;"
''I don't know about that" said
he; sfriends are not good patients,
and as for relatives
'Of course my relatives would
like to have us settle in or near Bos-
ton,' said I.
eve will think of it. Now as to
what we have to live on. | suppose
we can't reckon much on practice the
first year.
ooh, no; and we must bring our
expenses within our means outside of
practice, which / am sure we can do
if we try"
"The most important item is of
course, the house," suggested.
"We can't afford to pay more than
$25 a month for it as l reckon eX
penses.
"We ought to get nice little
house for that" said l, my mind full
of snug little German houses for
good deal under that sum per month.
You see we had just come over and
we were talking all this youthful non
sense in spacious drawing-room on
Beacon Hill.
"Perhaps the first thing to decide
is the location of the house," said he,
and this was the prelude to series
of drives to the suburbs and towns
surrounding Boston. Somehow, we
found no lack of physicians signs in
all of these.
"You see the point is to find a
place where physician is somewhat
needed and at the same time be near
some large center of civilization"
said he.
There was one place very beauti-
fully situated in which had friends
who were very desirous of having
physician within reach. The friends
drove us all through it, pointing out
its several advantages. We had al
most decided in favor of it, and had
selected several pretty cottages,
among which we thought we might
choose. We got the keys of these
houses, and after criticising their in
ternal arrangements inquired the
rent. This one we had thought too
far out of town rented for $25 a
month the others for somewhat
more. There were only three houses
for rent in the place.
The next place we looked at we be-
gan inquiring the rent of the house
before the number of doctors. Each
one of my relatives and a number of
nv friends selected place for us,
and each of these places we duly in
vestigated. When we returned from
our little excursions the relatives
would assemble and discuss our af-
fairs before us. Aunt Harriet Sco-
vile Coleman said she considered it
our moral duty,in justice to our high
est natures and our relatives, to set
tie in Boston. Uncle Everette Adj
ans Hastings had scheme for us
to begin life in small sea-shore place
he was planning out in Maine. 1t
was to be the future summer resort
of Bostonians.-a more English "cold
roast than Nahant itself. At pres
ent there were five Queen Anne cot
tages upon the island, and L think
these five cottages had sworn to burn
down anything like hotel or board
ing-house which might appear in their
midst.
A family feud was caused by our
polite rejection of Uncle Stevenson's
proposal to build us small house in
Boston, which he would rent to us at
a considerable loss to himself, and
another breach was made when we
said we would rather not accept |
Aunt Priscilla Perkins kind offer to
share her Back Bay splendor while
building up pfacClce.
Boston has a passion for philan-
thropy, as all the world knows, and |
is always ready to assist those who
if they are struggling ac-
cording to Boston's latest approved
methods.
When people heard that we could |
not settle here and would not settle
there on account of the high rents,
they said: "Let them wait, then
other people wait long engagements
are quite the thing in Boston,"
$50 are spinsters, nervous pros
tration and insanity SAID the doctor,
who had grown bold under so much
The doctors home was
some hundred miles from Boston and
waiting" did not seem to him at all
the correct solution of the problem,
&c II did TO the relatives Those ask