New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-17
LETTING LODGINGS.
HOW THE LANDLADY GETS DISCOURAGED.

HOW HE LANDLADI GETS DISCOURAGED.
gentlemen onyl' said the lone widow "No, I
wish might put ont such a sign that, but can't
afford to be so particular. You think women as
good men7 SO they may be, but all the same.
they are an awful lot bother. Men amt angels
far from f-but then most Of them have the grace
to take themselves off to their business early in the
morning, and don't no more Of 'em till night.
and then when they in the house they stay in
their rooms and behave themselves while the women
are continually running in and out Of my kitchen.
carrying pitchers of hot water and stopping up my
stairs they go along. You see most of 'em are
bound to wash their buds, in spite Of ali say
against it, and the worst Of it is they will bring em
down to the kitchen TO iron 'em, and that is awful
worrying to the cook, knowing, she does, that
precious few of 'em Will give her much Is
you might wrap round your finger.
"And then they will cook besides; not on my
stOve-I wouldn't allow that-but on oil stoves in
their rooms blackening the ceiling till it makes me
sick to look at IT, and sometimes keeping the house
smelling strong Of fried that my best dodgers
threaten 10 leave me- Now gentlemen, whatever
faults they may have don't do their own washing, and
they get their meals in restaurants and they amt
always coming to me with complaints OF the negligence
or the sass" of the housemaid How is she to sweep
a room properly I'd like to know, when there's
string stretched clean across it. hung with damp
clOthes7 / don't ; much mind that string. though,
| do the way Of 'em has of plastering their
wet andkercfs against the walls TO save the trouble
of ironing em, letting the water trcke down for the
dust to settle in, and ruin the looks OF the walls that
maybe has been newly painted. No. it amt
only the real poor ones that does this.
1 have in my house now a public school
teacher getting her thousand dollar salary, and .
draper earning twenty five dollars week, and mil
liner whose bonnes can't afford to look at. they
are priced and all ree of them women, though
they 90 ont every Sunday in their taormade suits.
keep their ostoves, and do of their own
washing.
DO the men never annoy me7 OF course they do.
Did YOU ever see a that wouldn't throw burnt
matches on the front steps when he going out in
the mornngl That amt so bad though, as dropping
lighted cigars on my staircase when they in late
az night not quite themselves. and then trying % get
into the wrong rooms. Require references Yes, that
is form have to go through with, though often they
don't amount TO a row of pins ! go little by folks
faces but mostly by the way they talk. When a
woman is TOO sweet be wholesome tell her that
don't think any of my rooms will suit her, and when
man palavering around me say the same thing
to him
Prefer single gentlemen? That do I always
have my msgivings when a married couple comes in,
for even if there children they sometimes make
ii unpleasant for the other dodgers Not long ago l
had a couple here, well dressed both him and her
that II you to meet them on the street you
would think they the gentecles sort Of folks, and
would yOu believe it, he would come staggering INTO
the house at > O'Clock in the morning and pretty soon
afterwad she would be hollen murder I'LL she reused
men TO swearing How could she live with him ?
Umph! 1t wasn't such mi,match as you might sup,
pose They hadn't been here week when him and
her came in late night together and she made such
commOtion on the stOOp because little slow In
the roughS on street began TO call out OF course,
| couldn't stand that, so the next day bundled 'em
out. bag and baggage
As for children, can make allowances for them,
having had five of my own, but then | can't expect
the same Of my dodgers. There was baby here last
wear i'm my first floor front. and that child after
keeping quiet all day long would begin 10 yell In the
evening just soon the old bachelor IN my first
floor back would come into his rOom and keep IL
M so long that wasn't bit surprised when found
that I'd have TO give up either the bachelor or the
baby-Uf course the baby the one les 60. Chil.
lren after they biz enough TO walk and t?lk ann
So much complained Of but they have an awful bad
habit dropping pieces Of pie on the stairs for folks
Men better pay than women No: when II comes
Ia that | have less trouble with women. woman
viii sometimes stand here and jew me down 10 the
after that She will most always pay what she prom
sss while time and again I've had 10 threaten young
fellows 90 their employers for my room rent.
don't know as IL would do any good but IL gives them
scare. they naturally like 10 stand well with them
they works for
There is a lot Of money i'm renting out your rooms
II Won own the house you live in, but II You have
house rent 10 pay. il is only handtomouth living
that Won get out of IT, Ny hall TOOms go of easy
enough at any time Of the year. but sometimes tho
large ones hang till get discouraged that, II 70
wasn't for my children, I'd give mp the house ane
90 at some other kind Of business