Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-06-26
"Wednesday, June u, 1889.
CHRONIC BORROWERS.
Revelations hy "a Lady Writer Who Seems
Ia Know Al About girm.

'to hhow Az ABOUT Eh"m.
If you are buying a house in a
neighborhood unknown 10 you, YOU
will naturally ask all kinds of cues
tions. You viii want to know if the
drainage is good, if the air is pure, if
there has ever been malaria, how far
it is TO the depot ANA po~lo!liee, but
ten to one You don't inquire ii there
are any borrowers in the nelEhhorhood.
Now. a chronic borrower is Il deadly
nuisance in a community. \ woman
WHO'S always lust cut Of salcatus
will stir upmore trouble in a ncigtb0r-
hood than "A mad dog and a hOgk OF
fifteen hepsaud a rooster
She will run in on you at any and
all hours, ana want tG borrow Just a
little sugar. ur spiea, I'LL slc can send
to the groCcrs, She really did not
know she wiss anywhere near cat till
she went about hcr cooking, and then
she found sh. hadn't a dust ui sugar
in the house and not a soul around
anywhere that she could sent out after
any.
hnd Sic will tell you that she does
so hate 10 trouble you; for ii there is
anythll on c.rth she disliEcs TO do il
is TO borrow and she never does il
when She can help il; but now her pie
crust is all Oh the plates, and she was
obliged TO. because she could not
spare the time to run 10 the grocer's
And she will sit down in your kitchen
and stop half an hour, and talk about
everybody in town; aud, meanwhile,
she will take an account of every.
thing her eyes fall on, and she will see
be mind your stove the cobwebs that
YOU forgot TO brush down this morn
ing; and she will notice the old boots
that your husband left on the wood
box 10 dry, and she will see that your
lamp chimneys have not been washed,
and that your dishes are in the sink,
and that you had ham for breakfast
by the spatter of grease on the stove:
and when she goes into some other
neighbor's house Oh a borrowing expe-
dition she will give a report of what
she saw in your kitchen, and swear
the neighbor over 10 eternal secrecy
regarding il; and the consequence
~
overtown that your folks live on ham,
and that you are the most uDtidy
housekeeper on the footstuol.
When the borrower returns what
she borrows il is always in little small
er measure, if. indeed. she returns il
at all. And you may congratulate
yourself if you get half what belongs
10 you.
\ regular borrower will borrow
everything, from a piece Of salt fish
for breakfast down 10 your boy, if you
have one.
The book borrower is even greater
nuisance than the woman who borrows
household supplies. She never hesi-
tates 10 ask for the choicest or costli-
est books in your house And she
seems TO think that shcconfcrs a favor
Oh you by So asking.
And if ynu are fool enough tn lend,
the possibility is that you Will have 10
60 after the books IN question, and
will find on doing 80 that She has lent
them Ia sogIc friend Of hers, who
wanted to read them, and she will tell
you that Ir knew you would bc will
ing-you are - good nutured.
In course Of our lie we have been
asked TO lend everything ia the book
line that ever we owned. except our
Bible, and somehow nobody ever
seemed 10 care about borrowing that,
and in nine eases out OF ten when we
have complied our literature has como
back to us in a shape that fitted il only
for kindling-ii, indeed, we were
lucky enough ever 10 set eyes ON it.
So We say TO all our friends, if it be
possible 10 avoid il, never have a bor-
rover for a neighbor-New York
Weekly.