, 1877-04-08
HOUSEKEEPING.

| 4A1" a WO1AAA ID AfENGlNG HERSELF ON HEI
| WICKED LANDLORD.
| There Is woman on May street who iast year re-.
eciyed mortal ofcnse from her landlord, aud
took solemn vow to be avenged upon him this
| spring. She has, besidee housekeeper's mortal
objection to having the unf.iendly eyes OF other
housekeepers inspecting her domestic arrange
ments; consequently shc managed to kill the two
obnoxious birds with the following stone: When
woman calls to see tho honsc, she take. her
mental measure instinctlse1y. II the woman is
thin-l!pped and combative, she assumes meek
look, and when with dtsdainful sniG tue visitor
says TO her companion, ''ina stage aside intended
10 be heard, :'Shiftlcss creature! Half-past 10
o'clock aud not q breakfast thing Washed" The
housekeepcr smiles ttmidy and apoloeetically. and
tho house when its 1nussed up SO, but the faet IS
mg three children arc lying sick Of foyer in
that toom and the servant girl tshc does her own
smallpox hospital, you must have met the ambu-
lance; 1t hasn been gone moren ten m,nutcs,- =
and so I've been compelled to sort OF neglect
companion light out with celebrity. saying to each
other, 20, know. the house won't snit:" and
Did yen eyer in al the course Of your whole *
gives the signal to her daughter child OF Il, but
20 wise be5ond her years to be Of untold assist
he The 70 heE At dhe ooe to few e9ss
to tue visitor, 20, 10 come in. NJ husband-
may you never know how. sharper than toothlcss
serpent u Is 70 nave husband that drinks thinks
that he Is Sitting Bull. and has painted himself
from the mustard-pot and has got hold OF the
meat az and Is caYortnc round scalpin, the urnI-
strange face kinder sootilts him. Come inv Tho
t'uaid woman doesn't II tho applicant is moth
erly sort OF woman who pritcs herself upon her
position in society," the housekccpcr insists on be-
ing shown the permit to view the house, and. on |
receiving 1t, says, 20, that's NIL right, but nv |
landlord warned nc that u woman with i |
waft on heE nosc,, or boil on her chin.
or some other distinguishing mark which
ne victor possesses plain to all mems |
ron. he said.-wa prowinc around pretending to
want to see houses, but really trying to get impress
lions Of the kcy-ho for gang oI burglars, and
didn't believe but what you were hcr. The
woman doesn't go III. Sometimes the yigilant
householder neks mystcrinusly II her visitor has
'rown~np daughters, and being Anawcrcd in the
says: ''Im SORRY then checks
crself suddenly. OF course the risitor asks why
nc IS sorry, but the householder says, 20, it Is
boat the ncighborhood they arc moving into"
nd cndeavors consplcuouslT to turn the
onversation- The visitor goes away, filled with
vague unrest and 4 namelcss terror. ami doesn't |
lke the house. Some times she imparte to her |
[sitor with many tcars, il her visitor he accom- |
antcd by child, how she lost child Of lust that
&C and sex. and how her predecessor did too, and
&c predecessor OF that predecessor too, and adds
at Of course she isn't superstttious, and there
at 20 sScet child should die. unl altogether
te scarcs the visitor into cIasping her precjous
lbe to her bosom, and be1ting hasty retreat,
q thonsand innocent stratagems OF This &C It she
Keeping that landlord without teuuut, and be !
III Fever get one while she is in the house. !