The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-05
A MODEL BOARDING HOUSE.

the boorders' bedrooms" asked Mrs.
Muldoon Friday morning as she handed
Mrs. MCGOWAN q bright green card. "All
the hotels an boordin' houses in town
nave EN-" she continued, "an' thoight !
moight as well be .yp v ,he toimcs."
Taking the card, Mrs MCGOWAN read
as follows:
"Mrs. Muldoon's family boordin' house,
Imeral' avenoo, known ell over the stock
yards as the Dhrovers' home. This house
has been newly carpeted from cellar to
garnet, an there's a washstand nm soap m
aich an livery room. The thravelin' public
will foind Il to their advantage to thry Mrs.
Muldoon's homemade bread an young
hyson tay before goin' elsewhere. A splin-
did view OF the s~htockyards car be had
from the back windy, an on a clear day
you can see EN- killing hogs in Fowler's.
The table is flrst-class, an TIERS a woman
i'm Waukeegan who furnishes the butter
especially for this hotel. No margarine
about it, I'll engage you; The rates are:
Moulders, printers, b~lacksmiths, railroad
min, shtreet car drivers, freight handlers
and packin' house men, A.25 n week,
where two sleep together. Single rooms,
$3.50. Three dollars and a half will only
be charged for gamblers, play actors,
hack drivers an dhry goods clarks.
fthkA ~ "
"Washin' and mindin' sivinty-foive
cints a dozen. B~oordhers must live up to
the followin' roofs or he booted from the
place:
"Rool fanny boordher who don't lane
his feet on the piece av rag carpet outside
the kitchen dure will be towled TO do SO in
"A very few words.
"Rool 2-If there's amy kickin' to be
made about the coffee or roast steak, kick
A. A. .-s. ..A... nep
"Rool 3-Isethers will be served for sup
per livery Sunday evenin' i'm saison. II
will be only waistin' wind to AK for them
at ann other toime.
.Rool 4-Ordhers from printhers or rail-
road min will not be cashed.
"Rool 5eAnny boordher who has the
misfortune to get drunk an be locked up
will not be bailed out unless he AVE a
trunk full nv clothes i'm his room.
"Rool 6-BOordhers who carry their
dinner with 'em to work will be given
eggs for supper, but they must keep 1t
quiet.
Rool Amy boordher caught putin
butther on his bread an spreadin' black
berry jam on top nv II will be shown the
dure.
.Rool s-The kittle won't be kept bilin'
for amy an after the table is
cleared Oft the boordhers must kape their
fingers out nv the butthery.
"Roo g-If ann robbery should happen
i'm the house the boordher who came lasht
will be held responsible.
"Rool 1O-I have no tin cintses to lind
to play acthors TO buy a shave or the Moo
York Clipper.
"Roolf1-When a boordher quits the
house IL is expected that he Will carry
his ould socks am undhershirts away with
him. Also: any ould bottles layin' around
loose.
''The above roofs are imperishable.
"MRs. ELLEN MULDooN, Boss"
81 think the roofs are firsht class" re-
marked Mrs. MCGOWAN, handing back the
card, IAN l don't see any place where l
could improve upon them. You can't be
too sthrict with some n these fellows who
are goin' around the country batin' livery
boordin' house they come across, an II you
hadn't something av The koind to kape
'em in bounds they'd soon run you out av
the bizness. How do you get along SO far
anyway? DO the ~boordhers pay you
prompt whin the week is up?"
"Yis, the mosht av thin are ralc good
i'm that way said Mrs. Muldoon, 'but
I'm goin' to put a flea in Shorty Robin
sons ear purity soon, il he don't come up
to the front. His week was up lashi
Chuesday noight, an as it was late whin
he came i'm l didn't see him until dinner
tonne Wednesday. | towld him that l
wa thrying to buy n new hat for summer,
an | axed him il he couldn't pay me his
boord. He towld me that they didn't come
his way the niEIt DtloFe, an nc toultin I
pay me till he made n winnin'. Tho divil
"a know / know fwhat he was talking
about at all, at all; but | have no fear av
Shorty.
.Come out into the garden for a min
ute" continued h old lady. leading the
way, 'till i show you fwhat I've been doin'
all week. My back is nearly broke from
bindin' over that divlish boord," she went
on TO say, as she stopped in front OF n half
completed onion-bed. There's not wan
ov thin around the house only meself
who'd think ov plantin' a thing. They're
the besht hands in the wurruld. though,
to ate anything good whin it's put on the
table before thin, but they niver think oy
the hard toims | had i'm hoein' an scrapin'
to raise 'em up. / axed Jimmy this
mornin' IL he wouldn't come out an helI
me to put in some ov these ingens, an
declare to goodness II he didn't feel hur,
an insulted. He's insoide there now, lyin'
on the broad ov his back, with his heels
sthuck up on the organ, an he readin' the
loife of Jesse James. About an hour age
the milkman drhuv along an sthopped IL
front ov the gate, an he'd be there until
now IL l didn't take the pitcher out TO him
meself. Mrs. MCGOWAN, there no one
knows the hardships I.have to putup with
an many n tonne i wished that i wal
dead an in me grave. Maybe they'll miss
his song at Barnum's show whin IL wa,
here a couple M years ago-yes, indeed
they'll miss me whin I'm gone TO me Ions
home. livery bit av this ground you sec
dug up ] spaded with me own two hands
and 1 have il nearly all planted 10Y
Over there | have noinc or tin rows a,
Limy beans,an' at the bach end NV the 10
have sowed some lettuce an reddishes
I'll have cabbage an timmatys over bacl
av the shed, jusht as soon as the toim'
comes to set 'em out. From here down I,
that phitc boord you see stickin' up will
the red flannel tied around il, all sowed il
with Bobamian oats. Ii some new koin,
av seed we bought nv a man who cam
along this spring, an we paid him so
bushel for it, and gev him his dinner ii
the bargain. On this leetle patch n
ground we have planted il; it'll rails
about twelve Or thirteen bushels, an tn