Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-03
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

he, ''that mammal is regular hanulty TO
me-" which, being interpreted, meant
that from any part of perfidious Albion,
the faithful creature invariably found Its
way back to the original owner. (By
way of parenthesis, the late Empress OF
Russia-not Dolly Gorouk, as lively
young lady calls the Cars peculiar rellct,
but the bona fide imperial consort-had a
dog which followed her from Cannes to
st. Petersburg.) Well, the Englishman's
hanuity business suggests the building
boom in ST. Paul now, by what you may
esteem far-fetched association
of ideas, but the analogy is there
all the same because the dwellings come
back upon the tenants, and the owner
smiles over the peculiar distress and an
noyances which he knows full well are to
become the experience of each renter.
He can safely say to any complaining
sufferer "What are you going to do
about it?" feeling sure that he can find a
number of eager applicants for any tene-
ment. no matter what the drawbacks.
Doors may stick at the top and at the
bottom, requiring the services OF car
penter with every change in the weather,
Requiring is the word, but alas, never
getting, inasmuch as any prosperous car
penter will suffer in his dignity if asked
to look at any job less than rebuilding
theTcapitol; and so you tug, and pull,
bear down ON the knob, or ease it up, I'M
til YOU settle into non-resistant endur-
ance of the nuisance.
The matter of window springs
would have fetched Job if it had been
tried on him, especially when an appar-
emily intelligent government had first
given patent for the abortive things
For four years an attic window has re-
sisted all the Establishments and mechan-
ical appliances handled by the average
woman, but it has stuck tight as an Ohio
man to a political office, and feeling
that it is under some malign spell of en-
chantment to exclude the air, is upper
most in this house.
Now the gentleman who arranged those
springs had no idea of making them
work. He put them in-verily he did for
keeps-and the rest he left for some odd
fellow craftsman, who might be sum-
moned in some frenzy of Impotence to
fix his work temporarily.
Said Louis XIV'S cook to the royal
physician, 1T is for me to make his Maj
fo oalyn him 6I-
gest."
So this gentlemanly mechanic put in
the springs, and it is for you to make
them work or hire supplementary thief
to loosen them, else let them alone. You
choose the latter alternative, because per-
haps you do not wish to have their last
condition worse than their first, which
will inevitably follow when the job is
done through the instigation of some
goaded woman. In the parlor windows,
in the face of the upper sashes are i'm
bedded minute bits of metal called
springs, and by some sleight of hand
when your thumb nails get sort of pur-
chase on the impractIcable heads, you
can push one, but the sother falls back,
and by the time you have it lifted the
other has stuck so tight that you leave
the window lop-sided, a triangle of dis
comfture.
Those springs were never made to work,
and herein lies the annuity business.
The builder got the cheapest materials
with the conviction that they would
fetch just as much rent, and the sequel
proves the correctness of his calcula-
ton.
People will complain, but they keep
on in the same old theatre of annoyance,
and as for that matter while they rent,
where are they going to better the case?
There is one particular man in lower
town who is always cutting his house,
and pulling it down in places, and may
be it is for the reason that he hopes the
repairs and alterations are going to i'm
prove on the old.
Samson's plan was the best, perhaps
the architects and builders of the temple,
ulcb Will uOOlh,
he took such satisfactory hold Of their
shaky old pillars. All that preliminar y
story Of provocation is bosh. Samson
was an investigating committee of one,
who took pretty arbitrary measures
If the right crowd could be got to-
gether in the Chicago court house, and
another Samson make as neat
finish of the building what a relief it
would be to the tax payers of Cook
county.
Samson Agonistes may be freely inter,
preted between the lines of Millions poetic
license, as the inspired howl of the aver
age householder paying rent from time
immemorial, with grievances peculiar to
every age, until IN our day they are massed
in abortive window springs tricky doors,
malevolent blinds, and every pestilent
innovation inimical to domestic peace.
1t is conspiracy, of which the plumb
er's 1uiquity is the most bare faced, and
irremediable. That has become an affair
of grim joking and facetious remons-
trance, partly because no domestic inge-