New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-01-25

ALL laughed over the story Of the woman who did not
wish to part with a very tall servant on renting
very small flat who solved the difficulty by cutting
a hole through the wall between the girls room and
the kitchen 10 admit Of her feet passing through
IL when sleeping The who said. with tears
in her eyes, that she had sold her husband ana
children for a door-opener, dumb waiter ana an
ash-shoot expressed the truth she had exchanged
their happiness for few modern oohNelncn'oS'
and more elegancies had rartered comfort for STYLE
had sacrificed good living to bad nescees.
"Foowing the question of shelter comes the Ques-
tion of food. Rents are high in New YORK as very
materially to affect the price of provisions "aSnins
ton Market prices are much less than those OF uptown
dealers but life soon becomes burden if it is found
necessary TO do all ones buying there. And doesn't
life become burden anyway if one often goes up ana
down town on any of the crowded lines OF taVel-ahu
they are all crowded7 You ascend and descend uie
filthy stairs of the elevated stations running the uue
pleatings of your gowns told TO step livery Dy
surly brute of a conductor; iammed IN Win iat women
and horid men eyed impudently by dandies comfort
ohIv seated and breathe air favored with tobacco
bskey and carbonc acid gas. The horsecars are not
mnch better / have often wondered why railroad
companies persist in employing conductors WIFI oe
fectve eyes and l was riding IN car ohe sum
mer day when lady's paIaso came whlzZlng through
the window. had called in vain for the conductor
IN stop and took that means finally 10 arrest ms alU
ton.
"Take next that mighty question which Is always
sgtatng every true woman-the question OF ciotheS'
The wear and tear street garments between the drU
nm the movements and the crush in cars and stores.
makes the mortality alarming: and the gown, whether
taIor-mad home made Is soon the worse LOT wear
Another large Of expense is carriage hIre-eces
gary carriage hre-in case one has weakness and
opportunities for social gayety Not only is legitimate
expenditure necessarily greater here than elsewheio
Int throughout the length and breadth OF Manhattan
Island greed and extOrtion are rampant Every man
hand is perhaps not against his neighbor but against
his neirhbors purse Your butcher will give you good
meat and cut oil fat and bone If you 60 for t-but not
II YOU send for it. You find your mlkman has three
grades of milk at the price. Your iocHsmim
charges fifty cents replacing lost key that couh
try workman would make for twenty-five. You ieeI
economical and take drive OF but three-au~ers Vi
an honr in Central Park. and your stabeman sehds III
a bill of So and. upon a remonstranee says nc Husu
charge the same whether out half an hour or
four hours ,, o..
The question still remans-does New-York pays
And what is there to set of against the difficulties
and annoyances of living in It For the nch' It's
attractions are many and its drawbacks few For the
very DOOR, who have no resources wIthln themselves
and no style of living to keep up. 1t Is easy 10
understand its fascina ions. prominent melhDcr
90 the Young Mems Christian Association interested in
the tenement-house problem told me that in the
course of his work among the very poor ne became
interested in widow living in vile place ana
working sixteen hours day TO support her7eH ana
two little girls. EDlsting some OF his irlehds uieS
procured a pretty cottage in village not far from
New York for the woman and plenty of work BON
easy and profitable About year later. III gong
through the same tenement district, he came across
the same woman living in the same manner Upon
nuestioning her as TO the cause of her return she
replied that Folks is better than stumps.' we VIII
admit for the sake of argument, mat foIks are
better than stumps-though l should like to pick the
,oll.s-and we come to important branch OF the
enbiect Is there time in New-York for the busy
,vor,ap IN enjoy her friends? In other and smaller
n,aces one can drop in Oh the delight Of her soul
without using up a whole afternoon In gong TO ana
fro or without waiting for her day al home Inc
two STYLES are rs follows: Scene. New-iorK' tme'
winter You put an elaborate calling costume
take a list of all your friends who receive on a
certain day. send for carriage ana 70 from mouse 70
bouse You sit in long dark pariors crowded with
,c brac and converse on the most trivial subjects
Cor the limits of a call preclude anything serious
You come home tired and bored, but' OF COURSE nave
the sweet satisfaction Of realizing 'hat INC foui
Hundred do exactly Now Tor 'he next Soene
A country village; time, winter lou th'ow io"S
fur cloak over your pretty tea-gown ana WIN las
cinatOr' on your head, and your httle uog al your
heels Won run down the snowy street sparkling under
= winter SIM You open a rustic gate. cross WIDE
n,azza and are ushered into large. low-ceen parof
ith windows on three sides and sunshine ana
eouers everywhere. The baby is Praying vi d
so. mai on the floor and your iflenu Is
.ns,od with pretty fancy work You sit IN your low
ohair before the big open wood fre-for the CHIMNEY
sraus New-York chimneys won't-sip the fragrant
Co. and discuss the last novel. poem or essay
auv has time 10 read in the country i"cn ~" ~
~ dpet and wonder If the new keyboaru wiz
novo,nt,onjze music. As the shadows iaii anu you
r.tnrn 10 YOUR own pretty home do you 'ii''A ~"
ND envy the Four Hundredi ,s
@If Won should decide for the country ~ s,'"no
60. low suggestions in regard to your nome tieIo
GU q. a n,aee which does not ape city stylc'' WIZ
,,oo,,o ave both cultured and simple, neither I' ~"
,oor and will combine for mutual aniusoiion'' -
1on huId your house and have not much "iO"o' a.,
80 aa have few rooms but have them large auo
,n a. occasion. requires-houses so enhreen arr ~,
- ,,,c,presoue than those built cntreN az a..
MaLo an ironclad contract with your ou''uVl ontI
No camnevs shall draw In olden times 'no "'aa or
stone was of almost a. much importance a. u am tt
Clone. now IL is much more elaborate WIN al a,nro
ysr,soatad tiles than formerly. but too often cs
, v.wnine black hole that serves no o'"oi
g.. a. anndrct smoke and SCOT into the rooih'