The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-04-05
THE APARTMENT HOME.
Mon Like IT and Stay in Sights-1ts Adj
vantage to Women.

Mon Like 1t and Stay in S.ghts-lts Adj
vantage to Women.
'Therc is one thing about living in a
big apartment house., said gentle.
man who has recently begun the cX-
pertinent Of this kind OF existence in
New York, THAT most people, | am
convinced, have not taken seriously
into consideration. 1t is TINT it is Il
sort of rcformatory element in life. |
have come to the conclusion that these
houses--I am speaking of those with
out cafes (rcal family hotels)-are do
ing Il silent and effective work in bet
tering the habits Of men and eXercis-
ing an uncOnsciously-felt influence
upon women. ! notice in the house
where am living, where | have an
apartment of several rooms with bath,
that when l get into my rooms do not
care to go ont again in the evening eX-
cept it be to visit some place of amuSe-
ment or the home of some friend with
my family. We have little world of our
own, surrounded by all that is comfort
able and comforting, and the old desire
to get ont with the boys seems to have
died out The place is SO cosy and in
viting, and it is SO removed from the
busy turmoil Of the street, that a fell
low seems to forget all the outside in
tlucnces that used to draw him from
the cheerless quarters lie had in some
conventional boarding-house. Yes, sir,
the men are kept at home
81 do not draw the conclusions from
myself alone. but I can see the thing
in the average man living in the same
building with me. They're all home
bodies; and it gots around to me from
the female side of the establishment
that most of the husbands are
changed men,' that they used to be
fond of getting out for a good time
now they are confirmed stayers in. |
am sure that this mode OF life is the
best for people OF moderate means in {,
city like New York. 1t is II benefit to
the women, too. They get rid of the
annoying servant--cook or chamber
maid-that has worried their life out;
they escape the opportunities and i'm
pertincnccs of the butcher, baker, cor
ncr grocer. and SO on; they are no
longer tired to death from running up
and down intcrminable flights of stairs
all day long: they have nothing or little
to annoy them, beyond certain small
things that must always come with
every mode of life, and they can give
their time to something improving to
themselves and TO the development of
their children. think it is unjust to
charge that worncn thus conditioned
are given over to idleness and gadding;
Tor my observation is that such is not
the case. | know two or three large
apartment houses, with restaurants,
and where there is no housekeeping
going on-.cgnlar hotels, in fact, but
without the cheerlessncss Of hotel
and have come to the conclusion that
the ladies in them are happier, more
regular in their domestic life, and less
disposed to street Lille than a,c the ma
iority OF those who fly from home to
escape the annoyances of housc1eep-
ing or the domination Of those asso-
lutte tyransS--servants ~. Y. SUN.
G-an rekry, ~ years " .r1r, Av''i.'ins
in Coyngton, o., became violently in
sane, resulting from religious excite
ment. lie is a Christian Scientist
There is no truth in the dispatches
that the Honduras government will
surrender Maj, Il. A. Burke, late de-
fau.ting state treasurer of Louisiana.
State Treasurer Hale, of Kentucky,
has arranged for temporary loans to
the amount of So, 900, to meet current
expenses until the state revenues come
in.
There is very little doubt that the
president, MS soon as he has been able
to dispose of the Bland seigniorage
hill, purposes to take another brief out
ing.
in the house joint resolution was
passed approprias!ng $1,000 for the
compensation Of deputy collectors OF
internal reseIue TO enforce the Geary
lssa.