Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-10
A MOST MOVING IDYL.

Mutability Of Boarding House Life-some
Results Of the Frequent Changes-A
Character for Young Woman Boardsr
Romantic Episode In . Sixteenth Gem
tury Potter's Life.
The now too prevalent furniture van pro-
vokes one into comparing PittsburRers to
'sThe Wandering Jew" II also causes one to
speculate in bewilderment as to where the
numerous merits Of the numerous houses on
which housekeepers were felicftating them
selves year ago have disappeared. Did they
exist in Imagination only7 Or can q woman
only content herself in one place at one time
for u months7 Is the affection Of woman
for her house as evanescent as that which
she has for her kiude Why does she rate her
contem plated residence higher than heaven
in April of 1891 and condemn 1t lower than
hades in the April Of 1897 There appears TO
be something wrong, and women say that
the wrong lies in the houses, but 1t seems as
If, should they search nearer home. they
would doubtless find that the exterm1nator
had better be applied there.
1t Is not the Householder, however, that
ought be saHtvated with sympathy. II Is the
unfortunate roorner and boarder, who ex-
flies in the sunshine. He won't profit by for
mer Apr1ls, but boards on regardless OF the
fact that his landlady Is woman with
mind OF her own that IL very apt TO cnanSe,
and who may rent q house owned Dy
woman having tho same sort OF q m1nd.
A Case In Point in the East End Such.
There Is boarding house to-day in the
East End where 1t is positively fact that
in another month the boarders won't know
where to lay their heads, nor, what is
worse, where to obtain their meals. The
house Is owned by woman VINO has become
Jealous of the success Of her tenants, two
young women, in their boarding house ven-
ture.- She intends to try q hand at it herself
when April comes: so she turns out her ten
ants, and they perforce must eject their SUBJ
tenants on the pavement: In the house ex-
change, now at its height out there, the
boarding house madam is getting the cold
shoulder, and since the house agent WON'T
help her it's not likely the Lord will. Nat
petition for the numberlsss boarders stand
ing on the verge of homelessness in Pitts
burg to-day.
OF course, it may be that such state of
dies have not always treated their boarders
we'll as regards steak. Boarders occasion
ally have retired from boarding houses with
their landladies "goodby." We have known
OF cases where towels were supplied with
such scsntiness and infrequenoy that one
bad to dry himself by installments and the
linen by turns
Boarding Not q Good Career.
Perhaps there are worse careers in this
life than boarding; but nevertheless it is not
q life work to be taken up lightly, but so
berly, shoughtfully and in the fear Of future
"I'll CONFESS" said boarder Of long and
good standing, tho other day, boarding has
weaned me Of domestic life and put me out
Loid that IL il the Sondision into which he
was pleased to put me; though, to be sure, I
was neither born nor did achieve board
ing, but had It thrust upon ME. remem-
Der when I was only q three-weeks-old
boarder, OF one laudlady selling US out to
another landlady. I left the house on the
morning Of that particular occasion under
Smiths front room gentleman, only to find
upon returning that and the other house,
hold chattels had become the property Of
Mrs. Jones. 1t was somewhat disappointing
to have to be taught that Mrs. Smith was
tust a woman like the rest OF them, and q
female who, tapping the beam at IT'S pounds,
still could only be described as
Uncertain, coy and hard to please;
And variable as the shade,
By the light quivering aspen made"
81 had staked my whole trust in human
nature in her, had sworn she would not
to her-I wasn't in position to say as much
about the opened ones-I had vowed that
she never disturbed the warmth of my
bed by removing the bed clothes entirely,
return for all this she sold me to Jones. In
justice to her / must confess that she did
display some feeling about losing me and
in sisted upon weeping on my shoulder that
night upon bidding me goodby. Occasion
all the good lady sees me still, when find
she is ever banking upon some future happy
state when she and will meet again in the
relation Of landlady and lodger-meet to
part no more"
A Woman Recommended as q Boarder.
There is q rara avts in Pittsburg in the
form of young woman, who was given .
as ''crack lodger," by her
Of a years standing. The young
lady has since married and the character"
has been framed and embellishes a spot in
her parlor beside the marriage certificate,
and Just beneath the legendary story God
bless our home" It runs thus:
II wish to tell lodging housekeepers in
general that Miss Blankety Blank is the best
1odger, outside of man, that ever 1 have
then then tSas's hat % her business s ana si not % mine. D
Of f' stockings in her room in my my
life, and she certainly never asked the
Sunday. Neither did she tell her friend how
few towels were served in the week, nor
how often the pillow case was changed in
the same net time: stnnd think she she might . have s;
safely out of the way. She didn't attempt
to save the soul OF anybody in the family,
and made no fuss about looking after her
own. I don't usually recommend females,
but this is an exception that will do your
heart good to see. think If you were get
ting a divorce from your husband. she
would learn the first thing of it from the
and she always pays her bills.
The young lady told me that for week
she had the pick of the finest rooms in Pitts
burg, and that from them dated period OF
higher estimate for woman boarders and
A MedinvaI Romnncs Reproduced.
THERE Ii . curious coincidence which
may OF may not have bsen premedttated, be-
tween the third act OF 1.-THE Middioman,"
and some incidents IN the life OF Palissy the