The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-09-24

Lone Widows support Thorn,
seiynH In Largo Cities.


i s. NO, wish might put out such q sign
Is as that, but can't afford to be so par
tic',lar. You think women arc as good
as men? SO they may be, bat all the
same, they are an awful lot moro
bother. Mon amt angels-far from it
--but then most of them have the grace
10 take themselves of TO thoir business
carly in tho morning, and J. don't SEQ
no moro of 'en till night. and then
when they arc in the house they stay in
their rooms and behave themselves,
While the women are continually run
ming in and out of my kitchen, carrying
pitchers of hot water and stopping up
my stairs as they GO along. You SEQ
most of 'em arc bound to wash their
duds, in spite of all 1 can say against it,
s and tho worst of 1t is, they will bring
EN- down to the kitchen to iron 'em,
and that is awful worrying to the cook,
. knowing, as She does, that precious few
OF 'em will ever give her so much as you
might wrap round your finger.
And then they will cook besides;
not on my stovc-I wouldn't allow that
but on oil stoves in their rooms, black
ening the ceiling till it makes mo sick
to look at it, and sometimes keeping the
house smelling SO strong of fried meat
that my best dodgers threaten to leave
ssne. Now gentlemen, whatever faults
icy may have, don't do their own wash
NnN and they get their meals in restau-
s rants, and they amt always coming to
me with complaints Of the negligence
or the sass of the houScmaid How
rs she to sweep room properly, I'd like
+ TO know, when there's string stretched
clear across it, hung with damp clothes?
Il don't so much mind that string,
though, as do tho way some of them
has of plastoring their wet bandker-
chiefs against the wall to savo the
trouble of ironing 'em, letting the water
itricklo down for tho dust TO settle in
and ruin the looks of tho walls that
may be has been newly-painted. No, it
amt only tho real poor ones that does
this. have i'll my house now public
school-tcachcr getting her thousand
dollar salary, and draper earning
twenty-five dollars week, and mil
liner whose bonnets 1 can't afford
even to look at, they are so high-priced;
and all three of them women, though
they go ont every Sunday in their tailor
made suits, keep their oil-stoves, and
do some of their own washing.
''Do tho men never annoy me? OF
course they do. Did you ever see a
man that wouldn't throw burnt matches
on the front steps when he was going
out in the morning? That amt SO bad,
though, as dropping lighted cigars on
my staircase when they como in late at
might not quito themselves, and then
trying to get into tho wrong rooms. Re-
Quire references? Yes. that is form
y, 10 - IL,
they don't amount TO Il row of pins l
go littlo by folks faces but most
ly by tho way they talk When
woman is too sweet to be wholesome
tell her that l don't think any of my
rooms will suit her. and when man
comes palavering around me l say tho
same thing to him.
"Prefer SINGLE gentlemen? That I
do! ! always have my misgivings when
q married couple comes in, for oven if
there are no children they sometimes
mako it unpleasant for tho other dodgers
''As for children, l can mako allow
ances for them, having had five of my
own, but then can't expect the same of
my dodgers. There was q baby hero
last year, in my first floor front, and
that child, after keeping quiet all day
Gong, would. begin to yell in the
evening just as soon as the old
bachelor in my first floor back
-would como into his room, and keep
DIT up so long that wasn't a bit
surprised when l found that I'd havc
to give up either the bachelor or tho
baby-of course the baby was the one 1
let go. Children after they are big
enough to walk and talk amt so much
complained Of but they have All awful
load habit of dropping pieces of pie on
the stairs for folks to stop on.
+ .Men better pay than women? No;
when it comes to that, have less trouble
with women. A woman will sometimes
stand hero and jew mo down to the low
est price I could possibly let room go
at, but after that she will most always
pay what she promises; while timo and
again I've had TO threaten young fol-
lows to go to their employers for my
room-rent. ! don't know as it would do
any good, but it gives them a scare, as
they naturally like to stand we'll with
them they work for.
There is lot of money in renting
out your rooms if you own tho house you
live in, but if you have housc-rent TO
pay, it is only hand to1nouth living
that you get out of it. My hall rooms
go off easy enough at any time of the
year, but sometimes the large ones hang
ION till 1 get SO discouraged that, if it
wasn't for my children, I'd give up tho
Mouse and go at some other kind of bust
mess"
and