Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-01-12

| They seem to think that everybody /!
to be treated with supicion, and thai
children and dogs are to be REGARDED a!
cumberers OF the earth. It has Away:
appeared to me as if there was money
to be made in keeping boarding house
| properly; that is, giving good rooms
neatly cared for; good food, properly
| cooked and served, with an addltlona
treatment of human beings, as if they
were men and women, and not merely
| boarders. The better a house is KEPT
| the more money a woman can make
| through it; but the average boarding
| house keeper does not look at il in
! that light. If the unfortunate boardeI
| happens to be a woman, she is credited
with a desire to do something wrong
| from the moment of her arrival. Ii
| she wishes TO retain a particle of char
acter, she mustn't even take her own
father, aged seventy-five, into her own
bedroom If she happens to possess
| number of books, she must submit to
them being smeared by the young wo-
man who pretends to dust them, and by
having this said to her about them
Miss Brown, | knew you wouldn't
mind. so | lent a few of your books
| to Mr.. Robinson, who don't feel well.
| The few lent are certain to be first
editions that she specially priced, and
as weeks go by and they are not return
| ed, she summons up courage and asks
! the landlady about them. She doesn't
7 remember ever having touched them.
Mr.. Robinson moved away that morn
ing. and she is surprised "at your max
| ing such a fuss about books, cheap as
they are. If she happens to dress
well the other boarders are doubtful
as to where she gets the money TO
nav her bills. If she don't dress well,
they feel sure that she is saving money
and is too stingy to make herself look
decent, and then the landlady hints
that Shes always had stylish people IN
her house before now.
Of her it must not be said that she
is not born a boarding house keeper,
but she drifts into 1t.
SHE SPEAKS OF HER HUSBAND,
If he is dead, as "one of the best OF
men, who was nObody's enemy but his
own. and who, if he did take drink,
was always ready and glad to snare it
with a friend" If he happens to be
living. she never refers to him except in
a scornful way. and when you first
know her you feel sorry for her as she
talks about how lazy men are and hints
that we would be in the poor house II
wasn't for herself, and then she advises
you, with a culver in her voice, never
TO marry. After a while you discover
that the little man who carves is the
one she promised to love, honor and
obey, that he has a good situation and
is so steady that the town clock is set
by him, but that she keeps boarders be-
cause she likes what she calls a lively
house. If you happen to have large
mail, she utilizes her husband by get
ting him to inquire at The postotIice as
to whether there is anything against
you, and she has a pleasant way of
cOnversing with your friends about you
pending your arrival in the parlOr Ind
though you never know what she does
say, you fear it is not Dcasant as you
discover that Tie people she cultiyates,
don't seem 70 cultivate you after that.
GIVE CHILDREN A CHANCE.
But the children, Poor little wretch
esl Double price is paid TO them, and
if they drop a ball over the staircase
they are complained Of. If they hap
pen to laugh because they are going out
into the fresh air, they are too noisy.
II they skip once or twice instead of
walking with great regularity. they are
rough. And if by any chance they
should be taken sick. then the landlady
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ersome, nasty things eat twice as
much as anybody else and always in the
way, and then go and get sick and
make people gloomy" The only child
that is liked in a boarding house is one
that is deaf and dumb and unable to
walk. And yet most of us were chill
dren once. We trundled hoops and
threw balls, skipped rope, and played
battledore and shuttlecock, and were
experts at jackstraws; and we laughed
and we skipped, and sometimes we
screamed. and screamed very loudly
but we had a good time. And that is
the right of every child. Fancy hav-
ing to sit in one room all day and look
at a book when you were a boy! Fancy
having to sit in one room all day learn
ing how to sew. when you are girl.
And fancy, even if you are twins, hav-
ing your mother say TO you, Now,
darlings. walk as softly as you can, else
the lady who had the room below will
complain Horrors! If it had been
mine. the result would have been terri
BILE. From sheer peryerseness l should
have developed into a pirate with pis-
tolls stuck in my belt. a knife between
my teeth and a sword at my side. That
would have been dreadful. What? You
say it is bad enough as it is, simply be-
cause ! am Bah.