Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-03-23
LIFE IN SAN FRANCISCO.
lodgings and MovinSs and Restaurant
Lonchoons and Dinners.


Lunchoons and Dinners.
There is not q city In the world. or,
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
(omesticity in the good old New Eng
land sense Is an unlxnown7 quantity.
You move into quarters having some
thing desirable to recommend them and
meander out again at the end of Il
month if the desirability isn't forth
coming. Packing and unpackiug, that
hetc noir OF most women, is here
diversion. It all reminds one of q hu-e
lame 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 near the shops and theaters
and in as fashionable quarter as ones
means will permit
If the financial conditions are good,
four rooms together are engaged, two
if they are not particularly so, and
failing either extreme one room an
Swcrs with a folding bed. Into these
different apartments the luggage is
sent, say about ten a. IN. The owners
having engagements for luncheon some.
where-it's the exception when they
havent-follow about two p. N. 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
gre shrouded III pretty shades, an etching
finds it's way to the wall, the best
French novel, with box of chocolates,
;dorns the table, and madam herself,
irowned within an inch of her life, Is
waiting for Milford and table dhote.
She is rs much at home and comforta-
lie as though her ancestors had laid
the corner stone OF the building three
centuries before.
AT the dinner she meets everyone she
knows. Why not2 They are part of
the procession that marches, counter
marches and changes cucrrnnv. I'm
married society men On small salaries
ample for their own wants, an Occa-
hiopal box at the opcrn, drives behind
livery teams and good clothes from the
tailor on the iustallment plan-drift
iato boarding-hnuse life by the thou
sands. They Got cheap, dprl1ish rooms
on the top floor without 4 scrap of com
fort, and sl:>ITnish on the outside for
space and air. thousands of people
1--we in rComs in private houses and over
shops al.I in every sort of structure eX-
cept church, going out for meals
everywhere and anywhere when hun
ger ovcrt;tllcS them.
'-hc restaurants are inviting, it must
u; said, Offering perfect dinner, in.
udinT claret, for one dollar, This is
II course at the best places. There
will DC, for instance, soup, mussels or
any sort Of fish; entrees, roasts, broiled
quail, teal duck, snipc and SO on; sal
DDS Of shrimp, crab, lobster and ices,
with bacl; coffee and kirnch. 10 sounds
nnd is delightful. but iInder.it all is the
poison OF asps. IndojrItca chaructcrizes
the women, pleasure-soclting and lack
Of ambition The men.