The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-03-28
THE oroaLlNo WIDOW.
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tVS UcAkutmF m0tAS1 om OUoCoFu avenue Oar rooms were in the third ssosy. Acrcs, the street vas large ssx-ssoEy apart meat house. In one of the windows was an old man trying to read a newspaper with his nose, as one of the children Fe. marked, so close did he hold is Ca his face. ln the next window were two long. haired children sticking out their tongues and making faces at us. In anothes window were . lonE-nosed woman with yellow Aair, and one of those sharp-nosed pug dogs. The blinds ol the next window were pulled down, opening a wide 6eld to conjecture, and so on. it Nas very cold in the room. There vas a hos.air register through which furnace and permeate the atmosphere, but the cold air in the room was in such vast majority that tbe register was un- equal to the erae' gency. As l did not propose pay fifty dollars a week ln ad. vance to treese to death, when there were so much cheaper facilities outside. l aHi- tAted Inc oeiI handle witn violence. and ii ss= minutes .he aasky, hollo eyed menlal, who had opened the door for us on the previous day. knocked. When she was told that fire was needle in the grate, she expressed a great deal of sur prise, and sad
 "You all comes from de sou'f, don't yer9"
 "Yes; what of t?"
 "Nutfn', 'cept hits what makes yer feel so cold. lse Varginy lady myself 'spiscs desc nordeTn iolk.s
 Alter giving some more biographical informauon she proceeded to make a coal fire in the grAte, intima,ing, how- ever, that she did IL as matter of per. sonal favor on account of our not having been born and raised in the north. She also inumated that some sctsous ohjs1- ton would be raised by Mrs. Measly to our having a ttc ID the room. PAusing in her labors Rrate laboIs, so 10 speak Kate, that being the name of the hol- low-eyed spccteT from the Mother of Presidents, asked:
 Does yer like lat turkey, wid plenty ob s,uffin' and gTavy9 r
 Tumulluous assent from all the chil- dren, and particularly from .Hltx. who is addicted 10 excessive eating. The boy has fearful appetite.
 "Does y.r like spar ribs and fresh egRsF'
 once more the childtcn expressed vo- oiterously their preference for that kind of diet. and Alex mouth began to water.
 "Well, den, honey, don't be uneasy. Yer won't get nt ffin' ob dat sort in dis heah boardin' house."
 There was an ominous silence among the children. felt somewhat depressed self
 ]" Fired iibher am what yer am gwine- ter to be fed ou. has trapped of forty pounds sense l has been in dis house. added Kate, as she rose to leave the room.
 Alex, whose belly Is his god, to use the language of scripture, emitted one of the saddest walls 1 ever heard. and an- nounccd his intention of starting for Texas immediately.
 A. Kate closed the door, she made a gesture ot despair that would have done ctedi, 10 Clara Morris ia the Two Or. phAcs," and said, tn deep, hollow tones
 " Dose pore childTuns Dose pore, pore ch,idTuns r
 That does not correspond with wha, Mrs Measly told me" said 1. "She said that her taoie was supplied with the best the market afforded. Nlggefs lie 90 much you can't believe a word they say"
 The wonan looks as if she had not had enough to cat for month" ," remarked my wife.
 lust at this moment there was q knock at the door, and Mrs. Measiy giggled her. self into the room. Whenever in any oi these letters Mrs. Measly says anything. take il for granted that she giggles be- tween every other word, as there Is not paper enough 10 pu, down all the hilarity in ,his letter.
 When she saw the fire in the grate she recoiled. and almost forgot 10 giggIe. It was an unhealthy giggle. Then she ex- plained that graie fires were very un- healthy. and almost sure to cause pneu- mopia, besides the register furnished ali the heat that vas required. l did not argue wah her on that point, ,elling her that cold dSaught came trough the hot air register when it was lett open. verily believe fl there had been two more hot air registers ls that room, we would have hozea to death. IL was like heat jag an oven with snosballs.
 '' wish you would be .littls careful abou, th,s kesrpet it spiies keaipets to spill things oD them. doo't suppose you have any kesIpets ia Texas said Mrs Measiy, looking 2. the carpet, which. like herself was somewhat faded.
 {" did not expect to spill anything. but it did, 1t would certainly be very incon- vsnient to take up the carpet. Fl tsy and be very careful, hss pvs seen carpets once or twice before in Texas,r replied.
 "H&ss you, isdeed7 l had q gentie- man from Texas boarding here iass win- ter, but he only stayed one day. He was such . nice gentleman, too. He told Us all about Texas. He told me how fhsEs was no gas m Texas. He said the streets and private houses weTe lit up by large hse-Aies which ~egs as big as birds. You must be careful and Dot bIow out the gas.1 eontisued Mrs Messiy. "It is not heal.hy so blow out the gas. You must turn il oG Yes, that gentleman from Texas told us 90 mach shcss tha. sseae tha. have wanted to go there ever since. He said the grzxs h0po<fg were 70 large