Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-03-01
LIFE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
lodgings and MOvinRs and Restauran
Luncheons and Dinners.

Lodgings and NTovinRs and Restaurant
Luncheons and Dinners.
There is not city in the world, OF,
to qualify, on this side the pond"
where people visit all their lives in
rented homes-be they in pretentious
quarters on the avenues, in downtown
hotels or in the degrees of boarding
houses that flank the streets from end
to end-as in San Francisco. The word
visit is used, says the New York Sun,
because the settledness of eastern home
life is not felt or understood. Real
domesticity in the gocd old New Eng
land sense is an unknown quantity.
You move into quarters having some
thing desirable to recommend them and
meander out again at the end Of q
month if the desirability isn't forth
coming. Packing and unpacking, that
bette noir of most women, is here a
diversion. u all reminds one of huge
game of progressive euchre, in which
the prize royal is bestowed upon the
person making the greatest number Of
moves, the aim being always to get
somewhere pear the shops and theaters
and in as fashionable quarter as ones
means will permit: & -
If the fnancial conditions are good,
four rooms together are engaged, two
if they are not particularly so, and
failing either extreme one room an
swers with folding bed. Into these
different apartments the luggage is
sent, say about ten a. m. The owners
having engagements for luncheon some
where-its the exception when they
haven't-follow about two p. m. Be-
tween that hour and dinner, at six
thirty, everything pertaining to the fit
ting has been stored away In closets;
tides are thrown over the chairs, lamps
are shrouded in pretty shades, an etching
finds its way to the wall, the best
French novel. with box Of chocolates,
adorns the table, and madam herself,
gowned within an inch Of her life, is
waiting for MILFORD and table d'hote.
She is as much at home and comforta-
BILE as though her ancestors had laid
the corner stone of the building three
centuries before.
At the dinner she meets everyone she
knows. Why not? They are part Of
the procession that marches, counter
marches. and changes eternally. I'm
married society men on small salaries
ample for their own wants, an occa-
sional box at the opera, drives behind
livery teams, and good clothes from the
tailor on the, installment plan-dritt
into clearinghouse life by the thou
sands. They get cheap, darkish rooms
on the top floor without scrap Of com
fort, and skirmish on the outside for
space and air. Thousands Of people
live in rooms in private houses and over
shops and in every sort Of structure ex-
cept a church, going out for meals
everywhere and anywhere when hum
ger overtakes them.
The restaurants are inviting, 1t must
be said, offering q perfect dinner, in-
Guiding claret, for one dollar. This is
Of course at the best places. There
will be, for instance, soup, mussels or
any sort of fish; entrees. roasts, broiled
quail, teal duck, snipe and 80 on; sal.
ads OF shrimp, crab. lobster and ices,
with black coffee and kirsch. It sounds
and is delightful, but under It all Ia the
poison of asps. Incidence characterixea
the women, pleasure-seehing and lack
of ambition the men.