Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-12-05
: LETTING LODGINGS.
How Many Lonc Widows support Them
solves In largo Cities.

Solves In LTrEo Cities. a.
"Gcntlemcn onlY?" said tho 1ono wild
ow to q New York Tribune reporter.
mo, wish might put out such sign
as that, but can't afford to be SO par
ticular. You think women arc as good
as mon? So they may be, but oil tho
same, they are an awful lot moro
bother. Mon amt angc1s-rar from it
but thon most Of them have tho grace
to take themselves off to their business
early in tho morning, and l don't SEQ
no moro Of 'cn till night. and then
when they arc in tho house they stay in
their rooms and behave themselves,
while tho women are. continually run
ming in and out Of my Kitchen, carrying
pitchers of hot wator and stopping up
my stairs as they 70 along. You SEQ
most Of 'cm arc bound to wash thcir
duds, in spite Of al can say against it,
md tho worst of it is, they will bring
'cEa down to tho Kitchen to iron 'cm,
and that is awful worrying to tho cook,
knowing, as she does, that precious few
of 'crl will over give her so much IS you
might wrap round your finger.
'tAnd then thcY will cook besides;
not on my stoYc-I wouldn't cllow that
but on oil stoves IN their roorn3, black
ching tho ceiling till it makes no sick
to look ut it, and omotimcs licoping tho
house smelling SO strong Of fried meat
that my best dodgers threaten to leave
nc. Now gentlemen, whatever lults
they may have, don't do their own wash
ing, and thoy got, their meals in rcstau-
rants, and they amt always coming to
mo with complaints of tho negligence
OF tho 's2S3' Of tho hou5omail. How
Is Sho to sweep room properly, I'd like
to know, when there's y string stretched
clean across it, hung with damp clothes?
/ don't Sd much mind that OtrinG,
though, as do tho way Gomo Of them
has Of plaGtoring their wet handl7cr-
chiefs. against tho wall to Save tho
trouble OF ironing 'cm, letting tho water
tric!ilc down for tho dust to scttlo in
and ruin tho looks Of tho walls that
may be has boon ncwly-paiat2l. No, it
amt oalY tho real poor ones that does
this. l havo in my house now q public
school teacher getting her thousand
dollar salary, and draper earning
twenty-five dollars q week, AMI = mil
liner whose .boanets 1 can't afford
even to look 1T, they a"o so hiGh-priccd;
and all three of them women, though
they 60 outcvcry Sunday in their tailor
mado suits, keep thoir oil-stovcs, and
do so,ao Of thoir own washing.
''Do tho mon never annoy me? or
course thcy do. Did you over SEQ
man tn t wouldn't throw burnt matches
on tho front steps when no WAS going
out in tho morning? That amt so bad,
though, as dropping lighted cigars Oh
my staircase when thoy como in late ct
1r-nu
tying to get into tho wrong rooms. Re-
puiro references? Yes, that is q form /
'iNaVe to go through with, though often
they don't amount to n row of pins. /
go q littlo by folks faces but most
ly by tho way they talk. Whom
woman 10 too sweet o-bo-wholcsomc,' I
tell her that 1 don't think any OF my
rooms will suit her, and when q man
comes palavcring around mo 1 say tho
Same thing {" him.
''As for children, can mako allow
ances for them. having had five Of my
own but then can't expect tho uamc Of
ny dodgers. There was baby hero
last ycar, in my first floor front, and
That child. after keeping quiet all day
long, would, begin to yell in tho
evening just as soon rs tho old
bachelor in my first floor back
would como into his room, and keep
it up SO long that l wasn't o bit
surprised whom I found that I'd havo
to give up either tho bachelor or tho
baby-of course tho baby was tho ono
let so. Children after thcy arc big
enough to walk and talk amt SO much
complained Of, but they havo nj awful
bad habit of dropping pieces of pic on
tho stairs for folks to step on.
Men botter pay than women? No;
when it comes to that, l have loss trouble
with women, a woman will sometimes
stand hero and iow mo down to tho low
est price l could possibly lot room 20
Mt, but after that Sho will most always
pay what sho promises; whilo time and
again I've had to tnrcatcn young fell.
EOMN to 90 10 thnir nranlnvf.rs for m