Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-02

instead OF crude colors, simple lines in
stead of tortured arabesque, doors Of
one smooth piece in place of thin panels
with their stiff, distressing lines and
angles, and where people could not af-
| ford good picture, thank heaven, they
| were willing to go without one. The
rooms were all larger than 1 had been
used to seeing yesterday, the paint
was fresher and the walls in better con-
dition. The curtains were softly figured
washing stuffs, OF lovely dyes, and the
difference in price over the hideous plush
| and brocade gave some admirable de-
| vices for ventilation and relays of house
! plants in blossom, which made the air of
| the house delightfully."- soft and pure.
| There was no carved hall screen or panel
| ing in the entry of the middle GLASS house
| l was examining, but III one cor
ner ran lift for sending persons
and things to the upper stories
! Each house had its elevator on the plan
| of q strong dumb waiter Just as much as
| It's stairway, and lift to bring wood and
coal for the fireplace. All the food
| from the kitchen was sent to the dining
! room by little tramway running on a
| shelf through the intervening pantry. A
! small electric moter turned the ice cream
| freezer, sawed wood and pumped water
| proved after all the best way of supply
ing pure water to private homes in the
country. 1t was remarkable that IN all
my adventures IN the pleasant region I
did not once hear a woman complain of
weak back, or of trouble with her
hired help. The void left by the disap-
pearance of these two good old topics
from conversation is not to be imagined.
Do you know the strangest thing L
came across in my dream was u board
ing house where people were almost COM
Portable? 1t was the outgroWth and con-
summation of the new order of things.
For instance, the parlor one was shown
into was not stuffy, dark or in hideOus
taste. Absolutely the windows were
down at the top, and the shades set be-
low the head of the sash, did not quite
keep out all the air and light approach
able. There were no sOled lace curtains
dragging half a yard on the ground to be
stepped on, no briC-a-brao from auc-
ton stores to give one bad dreams,
but there were plenty of matches in
safety-hOlder, a decent writing ia
bic aud a waste basket in each room.
The dreadful tail CARED bedsteads with
high headbOards, end the bureaus with
drawers eachsside the glass had all been
shipped to the source of the gulf stream
or off by Tristan d , Acunha and sunk
where they never could rise again, or if
they did, would be fiOated off to the
Greenland whale. There were the light
est bedsteads and toilet tables one could
sit at to dress one 5 hair, big mirrors and
washstands, and, triumph of refinement!
nobody ever thought of using another
person 3 bath-tub any more than he did
his tOOth-mug. The silver-plated pol
ished tub in its leather case III the closet
formed one of the pieces of each travel
er's baggage. There was no satin brOca-
telle and machine veneer in the paTlOr,
no furniture paintings, - but there were
six clean towels day and the bed-linen
changed twice & week and mattresses
aired as often. You went to market be-
fore breakfast, ordered what you fancied
and the house served it for you at q fixed
suR a week. What one person pre-
ferred he had and no comments made. |
If you wanted wheaton grits instead of |
printers paste of oatmeal no landlady
looked cucumbeTs and vinegar at you for |
daring to own such an Out-Of-the-way
taste. When you liked beef well-dOne |
nobody persisted in sending it to you
bleeding, and I did not once hear the |
phrase about giving US so much trOu- !
ble' once in any boarding house during |
my sojoUTn- It seemed sometimes as if |
there was as much consideration really |
shown the boarders as to the kitchen !
maid who as we all know is the first /
person in q house of to-day. And in |
those boarding houses people very seldom |
had to be reminded their bills were due. /
The markets of that country were q /
transformation of our ideas. People had |
begun to learn that a mans food had /
n Wit ityy n
man, and were careful accordingly. The /
markets where the new food was ex-
posed to absorb any and every exhala- |
ton were literally as clean as the kitchens !
to which the food was next conveyed. |
No heaps of decaying offal were allowed !
to faint the air and be taken up by the |
sides of beef and tubs of butter close by. |
The meat markets and butter mar |
kets were totally apart from each other, |
and butter being the readest substance |
to faint in the world, its place was |
kept clean as dairy mean a private !
dairy, not creamery. All the butter !
and cheese were kept from each other in |
glass cases and the former was never
sampled with the finger-nails of GUS
toner. The meats were kept clean, cool /
and dry as possible, and the trimmings |
from these and the fruit stalls were re-
L0OFGu DIS ldSL ho llduc, ~ 10 S"Spt OiI
by the pneumatic carrier as carefully as
if it were go much gold dust, which is
poured on the sides of railway embank-
ments. There it grew public vine
yards and small fruits of the ear
Hest and latest crops, according as
they were on the north or south slopes
of the cutting. 1 was told that these
banks and terraces were often leased for
a considerable sum by culturists, who
grew the finest crops with the aid of the
market fertilizers. 1t was beautiful to
ride through q series of garden views
along the railways, the walls of earth
draped with swinging vines like those
along the Bergen cutting, or the Hyde
Park station on the Old Colony line.
Every ounce of waste, as the marketmen
phrased it, was hustled off the face of
the earth and into it as fast as possible.
It was interesting to sec the new towns
laid out where the steam pillow ditched
and drained every road the first thing,
and plowed and puIverized the soil a
tweIvemonth before spade was driven
into it, to leave it in the healthiest con-