Show LIFE IN SAN GAN FRANCISCO and movlud and ana luncheons SIMI dinners there is not a city in the orld or to qualify on tins this side the pond where people visit all their lives in ht rented homes bo they in pretentious on the avenues in down awu hotels or in the degrees decrees of boardinghouses that flank the si ejects acts f aiom i oui end iid to end as in san francisco the word visit is used says the new york him un because the settled of eastern homo life is not felt or understood tood real keal domesticity in the good old new benir liland sense is tin an tin unknown known quantity you move into quarters having baving something thin desirable to recommend ti them ein and meander out aaen acain 1 at the c end nd of a month if the desirability forthcoming packing 3 and that bete noir oi of most women orrien ii la lare here re a diversion it all reminds remind sone one of a liuo game of progressive 0 euchre in aih chih the prize royal is bc bestowed stowed upon the person making the greatest number of moves the aim being 0 always to yet get near the shops chops and theaters and in a as fashionable a quarter as one ones s means will pe permit linit if the financial conditions are good four rooms together 0 are arc cli engaged a two if they are arc not particularly so and failing either cither extreme one room answers with a folding bed into these different apartments the luggage I 1 is sent say about ten a nl the owners having engagements for luncheon somewhere its the exception when they follow about two p m between that hour and dinner at ai six thirty everything pertaining to the tha lit fit ting has been stored away in closets tidies are arc thrown over the chairs lamps laina are shrouded in pretty shades an etching finds finda it itsvan to thel the wall wl i 1 estt french bo novel cl with a box of chow chocolates lates adorns the table and madam herself go gowned within tin an inch of lier her life is waiting for milord and table chote she is as much at home and comforte com forta ble as though c her ancestors had laid the corner faone of tho the building three centuries before at the dinner she meets everyone abo knows why my not they are part of the procession that marches counter marches and cli changes anges eLer eternally nally un married society men on small salaries ample for their own wants an occa dional box at the opera behink livery teams and good clothes from the tailor on the installment pun plan drift into boardinghouse boarding house life by the thou sands they pet get cheap darkish on the top floor without a scrap of comfort and skirmish on the outside for foi space and air thousands of I 1 live ive in rooms in private houses house s and 0 over v e r shops and in every sort of structure except a church going out for meals everywhere and anywhere when hunger overtakes them the restaurants are inviting it must bo be said offering a perfect dinner including cl claret for one dollar this is of courso course at the best beat places thero there will be for instance soup mussels 01 any sort of fish entrees roasts broiled quail teal duck snipe and so on salads of crab lobster and ices with black coff coffee ce and kirsch it fc and is delightful ul but under it all it is th ali poison of asps alps indolence characterize charac terie e the women pleasure becking and luel luck of ambition the men |