The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-23


most on edge, but, under the old rgime,
were as impossible of attainment as the
flights of fancy are to the born realst or
haoltual grubworm. The old boarding
mouse ut seems old time now, although in
| realhy only a few years removed was
place where the inmates sold their privacy
dearly or cheaply, according to the cir
eumstance, and where enforced and never
ending propinQuity was an Indispensable
element, even in the best houses; but look
around at the people you find niched in at
the best type of the New York boarding
mousse to-day, and it is stamped on their
| faces and felt in their manners that they
would be Intolerant of such conditions and
| the iact that they are there firm rooted
and established in contentment, season af-
| ter season, is signal proof of the temper
Oh the pace. The new order of boarding
mouse admits of its guests living under
the same roof for years together. and
never even knowing each others occu-
| patton or the peculiar family relations OF
! the various groups and subdivisions OF
guests The old, all-in-one dining-table.
|ith its cheek by jowl sandwiching ana
sidrlus IN common, was simply barbarous
us aDohshment gave a new lease to the
poaldlng- house life that was fast being
discarded and avoided by the refined and
l['st'ulous' and has really proved a mas
'SAstt ohe IN the landady's policy
| Olu auherents like me-thoSe who have
liied or been subjected to long SUGGESTIONS
Oh incoming and outgoing felIow-board-
| 80 season after season-haied the de-
'hrohing of the long table with joy. and
now IN some quiet corner. out of the
| man maelstrom of the dining room. pro-
| Nluea with individual table comforts and
luaVidual company QOr only the atoms
| most congenial are seated together i'm the
ne" oruer OF things), we note the gentil-
| lly ana tranquility engendered bv the
| ChahSe- by the way, did you ever notice
| now synonymous in sound those words
| are! we nightly pledge the health of the
| man or woman keeper of boarders who
| nrst had courage to incur the expense of
the innovation, Danish the time-honored
may be inherited mahogany to ignominv
ana substitute the six, eight or ten-round
ana square promoters of privacy. which
Whlle they entail additional trouble and
additional complement of outfit at her END
| OF the line, grapple her well-satisfed
poarders to her as with hooks of steel.
and make them think life worth the liv-
ing, even If you can't live at the rate
| of $40 a day"
This veteran boarder's enthusiasm in the
| trst flush of his emancipation NAV be mar
doned in view of his long -protracted trials
| and Plethora of knowledge. but there Is
ample testimony from all quarters that
| the term boarding house as applied to the
| modern type of that hosiery in the citv
| to-day Is no longer a name significant OF
| the tnIng as the thing Is commonly inter-
| preted or hooted at, but household far
| less composite, more individual i'm charac-
| ter Rather than one company comnosed
OF many it is now little detached compa-
MES of two, three and four separate en-
tlties each free to revolve in its own or
| plts, yet forming a whole; this too In
houses where moderate prices obtain.
| The New York landlady-and her name
is leglon-long since stopped trying to en-
terrain her guests, but not until lately did
| she think to put a check on her guests
| trying 60 entertain each other. Paradox
cal as 1t may seem, as soon as the board
ing house stopped trying to be a home,
| trying to amalgamate odd and opposite
and irrelated elements into one big family.
1t became habitable and the more widely
/ Independent and free Taxed its rein. the
| more of the hearth-stone, snuggery atmos-
| phere it conferred. Even fussy people
people with hobbies to ride and a mind
to ride them, and with corns (metaphori-
! cally speaking) that they wish to keen
/ from being trod on, can and do board
| in the new order of New York boarding
| house, living therein and therehow. for
months and years together in tranquility
| and contentment, and (all the world will
| agree) that is saying a good deal Hus-
I
/ keeping, fiat-keepng and housekeeping. of
| both the light and heavy description bach
elors and bachelor wives, maids and wild
ows, oddities of being all sorts and sects
| people with real, rafting family skeletons
/ 10 guard, can board nowadays and be
| safe-harbored alike from the curious and
| the well-intentioned invader of privacy
| The purposeful person can now have that
l oneness and apartness of existence essen
! tal to the fulfillment of ends and aims.
| just as well in a boarding house as he
would obtain if-to quote Bridget's net
phrase-he Lives private" and this. too
| is saying a good deal.
People may eat, drink sleep. receive
/ their mail and their callers their teIe
phone messages and dispatches. go walk
ing and driving, and diverting or busy
1 ing themselves all under one and the
| same roof and premises, with thirty or
| forty other people of like or dissimilar
4 tendencies and preferences, be heated by
the same furnace, cooled by the same chan
nels, waited on by the same servants yet
/ each inmate be as a blank to the other:
their names known, perhaps. certainly
| their address, but in all other respects
as remote and far-severed as though
! squares of close-built city blocks separated
| them rather than mere room-to-room par
titions; the slim dividing line of a door.
/ the setting up of screen or drawing in
/ OF a Curtain y boaTder IN such house
! might be wig-maker a celebrity a germ
culturist, or procurer of divorces and this
| devoutly-to- be-coveted references and
secluslon of dwelling is owing to a mere
| trick of the carpenter, fitting on of ia
| BILE tops, round or square, but scant of
4 length, in lieu of the long-stretched board
/ with seating capacity for the entire gamut
| of guests all a one and the same time.
! No such abstinence of knowingness as
now obtains among the guests was posi-
| bic under the long-table dynasty The
would you be so good as to pass the but
1 ter?'' and could / trouble you for the
| sugar." episodes of iong-table ethics Of
fered too pertinent and apt a handle TO
| the seraping of acquaintances. Even the
most stoical of preconceiVed determine
tons to resist the first beginnings of So
liability gave way in the face Of such odds,
augmented and abetted by the only natu-
raj thawing out due to eating and drink
ing in company. 1t is next door to i'm