Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1889-01-03
TEN CENTS a NIGHT.
Interesting Plan OH Which a Cheap
Lodging House IN Run.

Interesting Plan OH Which IA Cheap
Lodging House IL Run.
''Eow. | will show you the dime mu-
scum said the proprietor of the cheap
lodging house. facetiously as he led
the way to a room at the very top OF
the house. Its ceiling sloped to with
in II few feet OF the floor. Theirs were
one single and four double beds in it,
and on the former an old man was
sitting reading. sometimes. when
there's rush. we put them in three
in "A bed, said the proprietor. "You
can't expect much for ten cents, you
know. Some of EN- call it tho lunatic
asylum. I'll tell you why when We 90
down stairs. There were no sheets
on tue ten-ccnt BEDS and the air in the
room had apparently renal ed un.
changed rs long as had The quilts aud
blankets. The reporter was quite will
ing TO go down stairs
You noticed that old gentleman
sitting on the bed. didn't yOu?' asked
the proprietor. "He makes up the
beds ior me and gets IA single bed for
| lunalic; that > why we call it lu-
natic asy lum. He thinks the room is
full of witches. and every night he
! gets up aud SHOES Fem out of the room.
He shakes his bed up first 10 get EN-
out of that, and then waves his pillow
at 'em To drive EN- out of the win
dow"
doesn't this tend 10 disturb the
| ct, l,,l Al
well, you see. they're used TO IL"
said the proprietor. Though l guess it
does rather rattle a. transient when the
ole man gets on the warpath.'
Then there's another old fellow
named Philip. le sells cough drops
all day. that arc warranted to cure
coughs, colds or bronchitis. What,
with standing out in the rain and not
! having n change of clothes. he's got so
bad cough himself that he can't
talk above II whisper. l asked him
why he ddn take some of his cough
drops. but he only winked aud said hot
tea was good enough for him. lie had
n new par of shoes stolen enc night
| through oversleeping and not getting
! awake TO claim EN-. and since then
/ he's invented Il scheme worth money
! to know. Just before lie gets into bed
each night he puts two legs of the bed
slead into the shoes, ami # any body
moves 'em they got TO lift the bed
and wake him while they're doing it.
Then there's another chap that
mends clocks. He goes around from
door to door asking people if they
haven't got any clocks they want
mended. He charges % cents for fix
| ing 'em, but he tells me he doesn't
| know any more about liking clock
than do. and all he wants is to keep
EN- going till he gets out Of the house.
| There another fellow comes here
who goes from store 10 store collect
ing waste paper and wrappings. He
makes about 30 cents a day. Another
boarder gathers in gum shoes and sells
EN- for 81 cents pound.
Then there's another regular
/ boarder who makes Il wing by bog
| ging for clothes. His lav is to say that
| he just out of the hospital that he's
too weak 10 work yet and wants some
! old clothes for his wife and children
He's fair-spoken fellow. and women
| give him old clothes and bOnnets for
| his wife. He sells them at the second
! hand stores and makes about 81 n
day. The four of 'em. being regular
boarders, are allowed to cook their
breakfast on my stove. They club to-
gether and get two rye loaves one day
old for half price. that's D cents; 5
cents worth of coffee and half.
pound of sugar is Q cents. aud fitch
of bacon is 6; that makes 20 cents al
together They put little -four in
the grease from the fitch and make a
gravy So the four of EN- breakfast
Tor cents apiece. "-Iittsburg Dis
petck.