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Show The New York hoarding Huns. Celia Logan discourses in the 8 -in Francisco Call of tha New York boarding board-ing house: The old-time objections lo tb boarding houao, Ihut it conduces to immorality, lor tha reason that wive? are left alone with nothing to do, and consequently fall into mischiof, no longer prevails to any Great extent, for the modern New York boardiug house is the most unsociable place in the world people hardly ever exchange ex-change the civilities of the d:iy. They meet in the diniug-room at' tho general trough, and goige in silence such food I oh, such food ! or rather such cooking, for the food ia not so bad. You, in San Francisco, can have no idea of the vile, outrageous, abominable, death dealing cooking in this city. It may be owung to Ihe fact that your cooking is pnucipally done by men who, Cuiuee though they be, are infinitely tho superior of these oreatures of the metropolitan kitchen, who ruin the metropolitan stomach. For instance, take potatoes, they peel and boil them, contriving lo boil the water- into the potato so that it is sodden, Jjeavy and tasteless. Every day in the year, in every boarding house in the city and whole streets are nothing but hoarding hoard-ing houses you are obliged to eat potatoes cooked in that way or go hungry, notwithstanding there are numerous other ways of cook in thens, such as steaming, boiling in their jackets, roasting, frying, and several foreign modes; but no, it is always (he boiled potato, just as it always al-ways is tough steak for breakfast, tough beef for dinner, with the heavy and pestiferous pie. No wonder we are a nation of dyspeptics; dys-peptics; no wonder our young men have no spirit, no goaheadativenees, iving on pasty bread, putty like Icheeseand flannel cakes. This truly American dish is aptly named, for the flannel cake not only tastes like, looks like, but cuts like flannel, and I for one believe it is made of old flannel, and not clean at that. And for dirt! I back your New York boardiug house against Italy, which stands preeminent in that particular; 'so that, take it for all in all, it the entire mass of boarding houses could be swept away, it would be a blessing in disguise. |