St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-11
Talks On This Point With
Some st. Paul Boarding
Housekeepers.


fire, or most anything she can think of.
When lady sits down at a table she
can tell very quickly whether or not the
food is properly cooked, and, if it's not,
she never hesitates about entering
vigorous complaint. Men, on the con-
trary, do not notice any little deficiency
in tine cooking or the service, and, even
if they do, they are gentlemen enough,
as rule, to say nothing about it,unlesS
it gets too bad. A lady boarder wants
more attention than gentleman, and
will ask for things that no man would
ever dream of doing, without offering to
pay for the extra service. Then, too,
the younger class of lady boarders, who
are usually preferable to their older
sisters, by the way, always have lot of
at all hours of the day and night.
don't care for lady boarders."
s'Rooms for rent to gentlemen only"
''nice furnished room for gentleman"
Furnished rooms for rent-nO ladies
need apply" etc., are some of the no
tees one meets on every hand in this
city. A GLOBE reporter set out a few
days ago to interview some of the nu-
merouS lodging and boarding house
keepers, and the results of his tour con-
WINGED him that the
LOT OF THE WOMAN
seeking room and board in a strange
city is not happy one. ALI landladies
have deep-rOoted aversion to men,
bers of their own sex. This APP
plies not only to the rank and
file of those who earn their living. but
also the single OF widowed lady with an
assured income. TO greater or less
extent they are all under the same ban.
Between the two, however, the lodging
housekeeper has the greater dislike OF
keeper recognizes the necessity for eat
ing and she kindly consents to profit by
this necessity.
A tour of number of boarding and
lodging houses was made, and every
kind and quality of landlady was seen.
There was the woman of sharp voice
and peaked features, aggressive, de-
fiant and suspicious; the brisk, breezy,
gOOd-natured, ideal landlady was found
at another place; the fair, gentle
widow, too, was found, whose hair was
in order, but whose parlOr was not
and last of all, was the talkatiYe
woman who asked innumerable ques-
lions, and volunteered much unneces-
sary information concerning her bust
ness, and its trials and veXations. She
took lady boarders and charged them s.
per week. ostensibly for the accommo-
dations, but probably really for the
pleasure of her conversation.
Il had much rather have gentlemen
bOarders," said one of these ladies.
"YOu see, they don't need so much at
tention. They never
RING FOR HOT WATER
and hot fiat-irOns. They always like to
complain if things are not just so and
so. Ladies never think of the extra
trouble they make one, while gentle
men seem to fear to claim even their
rights, lest they may be asking more
than is due them. If it were possible |
would much prefer to have all lady
bOarders."
Another kindly, gOod-natured land
lady, on being questioned in regard to
the matter, said: ''Of course there are
boarders and bOarders, just as there are
landladieS and landladies. For my part
| like ladies in the house. Every house
is pleasanter, and should be better for
their presence. But the fact Is they are
more trouble than men. When they re-
main in their rooms all day, where they
have right to be. they are always
wanting something. The selfish, incon-
siderate ones always insist upon extra
come up three flights of stairs to
put lump of coal on the CRATE,
to open window or shut it, or to find
their night dress. They'll 60 into the
bathroom and wash out all sorts of
things, laces, handkerchiefs and stock
ings. A plumbers bill always follows.
The rawlings and shreds get into the
pipes and choke them up and no end of
trouble follows. Women are not bust
ness-like. They will pay $40 for bon
net and haggle over a wash bill. Again,
in houseful of lady dodgers or board
erS there are occasional StrifeS
and envyings, jealousies and Cos
Sipings not pleasant. They want fire.
quent changes made in their rooms.
They want little thread, or darning
needle, or teaspoon, or some mustard,
or table salt, or camphOr. Indeed,
there's nothing from pin to porous
plaster that l have not been asked for
by my lady bOarders. They
LOSE THEIR PASS KEYS
and burn the gas to heat curling irons
and pipestems with which to curl their
hair. They have callers, and forget
that it takes time for girl TO answer
the bells for these callers. And as
women spend money less freely than
men. they forget that extra service
should receive extra pay. The truth is,
| find it much easier and more pleasant
to transact business with man than
with woman. These are some of the
reasons why prefer to have gentlemen
bOarderS."