The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1877-04-27
How q Woman Gets Even with Her
Landlord.


Landlord.
There is a woman ON May Street who
last year received a mortal oflense from
her landlord. and took solemn vow 81
be avenged upon him this spring. She
has. besides, a housekeeper's mortal OBJ
lection 70 having the unfricndly eyes OF
other housekeepers inspecting her do
nestle arrangements; consequently she
manages to kill the two obnoxious birds
with the following stone: When awom-
an calls 10 see the house, she takes her
mental measure instinctively. Ii the
woman sthin Tipped and combatiye, she
assumes meek look, and when with =
disdainful sniff the visitor says 10 her
companion, in a stage aside intended 10
be heard, 'Shiftless creature, Half
past 10 o'clock and not breakfast thing
washed :" The housekeeper smiles TIM
idly and apologetically, and says: I'm
sorry I've got to show you through the
house when it's mussed up so, but the
fact is my three children are lying sick OF
scarlet fever in that room. and the SER
want girl (she does her own work. has
just been taken sick and removed to the
smallpox hospita'-you must have met
the ambulance; it hasn't been gone
more'n ten minuteS-and. so I've been
compelled to sort Of neglect things. y
Then the thin-upped woman and her
companion lightout with CELEBRITY. say
ing to each other. :. q. know the house
won't suit" and ..Did YOU ever in all
the course Of Your whole existencc?''
II timid looking woman calls she
gives the signal TO her daughter, child
Of twelve, but 20 wise beyond her wears
rs to be of untold assistance 10 her
mother, 70 upset few chairs while she
is at the door. and then say cordially To
the visitor, 90, do come in. Nv hus-
band-may you never know how sharper
than toothless serpent il is Ia have a
husband that drink~-thinks that he Il
Sitting-Bull, and has painted himself
from the mustard-pot. and has got hold
Of the meat-ax and j. cavorting
around scalping the furniture, but he
never hurts any one. The sight 81 a
strange face kinder soothes him.
Gomez" The timid woman doesn't. If
the applicant l. amotherly sort of wom-
an who pridcs herself upon her position
in society. the housekeeper insists on
being shown the permit to view the
house, and, on receiving il. says. 40.
that's all right. but my landlord warned
me that a woman with wart on her
nose. or a boil on her chin, or some
other distinguished mark (which the
visitor possesses plain 10 all mems
views) just like you-a very common
looking person. he said-was proving
round pretending 10 want to see houses.
but really trying 10 get impressions If
the key-holes for gang Of burglars. and
/ didn't believe but what YOU were herr
The woman doesn't 20 In. Sometimes
the vigilant householder asks mysteri- |
ously II her visitor has grown-up
daughters; and being answered 7
In the affirmative, says: .rm
sorry" then checks herself sud- /
denly. Of course the visitor asks why \
she i sorry, but the householder SAYS.
20, i j. nothing; but people sometimes
like 70 know all about the neighborhood \
they are moving into,r and endeavors
conspicuously % turn the conversation. /
The visitor goes away, filed with
vague unrest and namelcss terror. and
doesn't take the house. Sometimes she
Imparts 20 her visitor, with many tears,
4 her visitor be accompanied BY 4 child.
how she lost child ~ just that age and
sex, and how her predecessor did. too.
and adds that Of course she isn't super
stitiolis, and there may be nothing in Il.
but she thinks II shame that so sweet
child should die, and altogether she
'carcs the visitor into clasping her pre-
;ious babe 70 her bosom, and beating
nasty retreat. by thousand innocent
Of this sort she i keeping
he landlord without a tenant. and he
viii never get one while she i in the
rouse. -C Chicago Tribune.