Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-07-08
IMPROVEMENTS IN FLArs.

We Have Made some Progress, But the
Future Holds Glorious Promise.
The oppressor's wrong, the proud
mans contumely, is never felt so keen
ly by person as when serving a term
in modern fiat. Anyone who has ever
been confined in fat will instantly un-
derstand that the oppressor is the land
lord, and the proud man the janitor.
But there is always a limit to oppres-
sion. As remarked by an earlier orator:
Caesar had his Brutus, Charles 1. his
Cromwell" and it appears that at last
the fiat-house owner Is profting by
their example. We reach this con-
clusion from the consideration of
report from Brooklyn, fully authenti-
Gated, that there is in that city a large
fiat building, in which a piano is fur
nished with each set of rooms, it being
considered as much q part of the fat as
the mantel or the kitchen range. These
apartments are known as the musical
fats.
That this is a distinct triumph for the
tenant as against the owner no one can
doubt. Pianos cost money, and under
the circumstances probably do not last
landlords, would derive much quiet sat
iSfaction from the fact that the plan re-
duced the latter's profits, even If they
cared nothing for the instrument In it
self. The fitting of the Brooklyn
Musical flats with pianos is the begin
ming OF great reform. In few years
all fats will be supplied with pianos.
Indeed, no doubt they will be "built
in" and become part of the house, as
much as the gas pipes and the open
fireplace. 1t were not, perhaps, to con-
slider too curiously, to follow up the
idea little further, and discover If pos
sible whittier we are drifting in this re-
gard. Many families number no active
musician in their ranks, and no doubt
the time IL coming when the janitor will
be required perhaps by law to come
in two or three times day and execute
few choice selections on the piano
forte. This suggests the idea that, since
there are other luxuries cherished by
hat-dwellers besides the piano, they,
too, may yet be furnished without addi-
tional charge. There is, for instance,
tho item of boiling enlargement to
playing tummy-tum-tum tunes on q
piano, nothing so delights hat-dweller
as to boil cabbage near the air-shaft.
But cabbage is expensive, and it may
yet become customary for the landlord
to supply a quantity daily TO each tenant
for boiling purposes. Kindling wood
may, too. be furnished the tenant to split
on the kitchen floor. And above all,
children, now frowned upon may be
tolerated. More they may be en-
Outraged. Still more, they may be
! supplied to families unfortunately not
provided with any. We may yet read
this In the Tribune's deservedly popu-
lar advertising columns: ITO let, fat,
eight light rooms, stationary pianos,
hardwood cabinet organ, violins, banjos,
ETC., janitor graduate Of the conserva.
tory. Theater tickets every Monday
night. N. B.-A five-year old boy sup:
piled with q tin drum goes with this
elegant fat"
Inmates of fats, rejoice. Your day
of deliverance is at hand! Sweetness
and light without an increase Of rent
are coming to you who have so long
been ground under the iron heel of the
ianitor Pm. Y. Tribune.