| Show Peculiar feature of City life tChlcngo TimesHerald Anyone who Is I wedded to the theory < thaI women cnnnot got along l without chattering or gossiping or Occupying each fillers households for a large fraction frac-tion of the twentyfour hours houM direct his or her observation to the modern aparment building It Is I one of the most remarkable things In our in terday nineteenth century urban life this custom of people not knowing each other In flits It Is I only needs Nary to consider all the reasons And Inducements for women living In hop nrat building knmlng each other to ba highly astonished that they so often don t or rather so rarely do When they lived In the country four miles from each other thy were on trm ot the most cordial and frequent Intercourses Hut now that they nre under the simi roof anti have to Pass nh Others doors twenty times a day enroue to their own homes thitir testimony eOn on the Identity of their neighbors would < not be 1 admitted by nn nntlcor Potation Jury It Is I truly remarkable nnd must np i pear BO to all derelicts In Hats t4les lack 4 h of Acquaintance rho very olr or such buildings seems to preclude famllarltj and the Ice I that ooh tl nnnt wrays hIm self up In Is I of that IlIoxoul north kind that Is I never broken I There In I tin etiquette of new rldellt calla such RA obtains with all w ho i Inhabit detached houpor There Are no chance tnt I Ages or cOIIernllon while Inspecting lie grn Ih of tile viren ur sewing on Iho side I patch On the control every regulation elvory Offshoot every ton elency o til Hat building Is I towatd liolu lion The hollow of n rock In the desert Is I not halt so good n place for a family to conceal I Itself or Us affairs from the world Perhaps flnta ore too new nn trial lutlon to have a settled status suited to these pto le who like a little of the ol tit foshlon1 country wny or knowing peo 1le occasionally Ithln a mile ur two ot hro one lIe It Is I Per to Inly al most inexplicable how people can came arid tie out of their homin day after day ahere P false step mould almust Ihrrw them into their 1Ilghhor apart tnentsilthoutevvr knowlnl ur ultl voting that neighbor to more than the extent of n most frigid liovv It Is I certainly cer-tainly one of the most marked features About Apartment bulldlngllvn the best Of them U might be Objected thai pertains i living In flats do rt by I reason of kno vine Is About each other titan thom hollre by Jrlk und stone put up In other shapes Hut this can have 110 wlght In places here the houoholdr are all people ut mn And 1lIlun III the Community lIre tho same dlllngnlohn characteristic ut flat life holds good The oman on the first floor knox all about the wo man on the sCvond her hubon s beef nets uhat church Phe goes 10 and everything but the Indy herself There seem to Ile nu rooonnhle cause for I tile xlllng state of things It Is I on entguna and hut one of the thousand 111Igo curious asset unfathomable I thln tht 1 go to make up the lItoue ot life III n great oily |
