Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-29
HIGH-BRED. LANDLADIEs.
SOFA, Distinction in Houston in Lieu
u Board and Lodging.


The snake reporter was vending his
way h0meward last night when he was
ar-1achsd by a very gaunt, hungry
looking man with wild eyes and an
elac.a.ed face.
Can YOU tell me. sir" ne inquired
'vhare I can md in Houston a family
O. .JW-born scrubs
% don't exactly understand" said
-1a reporter.
~Let me tell YOU how it is" said the
sulcia,ed man. IL came 70 Houston
month ago. and hunted up a board
r1 house, as 1 cannot afford TO live at
o. hotel. ! found a nice aristOcratic-
olsing place that suited me, and went
inside.
THE laudlady came in the parlor
and she was very stately lady with a
roman nose. asked the price of
beard. and she said. Eighty dollars per
month. I fell against the door jamb
v..h o duh thud, and she said;
You seemed surprised, sab You
will please remember that l am the
widow of General Riddle. of Verginia.
l.y amily is very highly connected;
give rou board as favah; I never con-
slider money as an equivalent to adj
vantage Of my society. Will YOU have
aolm with door in ito
~'IN call again. l said, and got out
VI the house somehow.
7 went to some more boarding
houses.
IIe next lady said she was descend
% from Aaron Burr on one side and
.1t Kidd on the other. She was
Using She Capt. Kidd side in her bust
ness. She wanted to charge me 90
cents an hour for board and lodging.
Travelled around all over Houston
- found nine wiows of supreme
CORR. judges. u relicts of governors
generals and % ruins left by happy
.aal,ed colonies. professors and ma
s who pu- fancy figures on the ben
o., their society and carried vict-
ai.s simply as a side line.
finally grew desperately hungry
-- engaged a weeks board at nice,
swish mansion in the Third ward.
.ae lady who kept il was tall and i'm
posing. She kept one hand lying
..-' aer waist and the other held a
DOOR and a pair of fee hooks.
-i she was an aunt of Davy Crock
--I was still in mOUrnin for him.
-'--.y was one of the first in Tex
WAS then supper time and 1 went
supper Supper was from ESQ
and consisted of bakers bread.
''. and cold Slaw. was so ia
That begged TO be shown to my
I'D Immediately after the meal.
N ,ne candle. went in 20 the
she showed me and locked the
QUICKLY. The room was furnish
- imitation Of the Alamo. The
pills and ,he floor were bare. and the
... vas something like a monument.
,-t harder
s- .i, midnight felt something. as
''' fallen into a prickly pear bush.
Jumped mp and lit the candle. Il
.- io me bed, and the nut on my
s and exclaimed.
".'nopylae had her messenger Of
.- '1, The Alamo had a thou
NtN Ntlt tQODI anu leLL lle
s-+y... my dear sir. I am not wealthy.
,Aano, afford to pay for high lin
'll moldy ancestors with my
Norined beef goes further with
A a coronet. and when I am cold
ol arms does not warm me.
van, to find a boarding house
r. proprietreSs was left while an
-- IA a basket in a livery stable
r. father was an unnaturalized
rom The Fifth ward. and whose
r, .''4.aer was never placed upon the
.- IS there any such place in Hous-
n. snake reported shook his head
lever heard of any" he said. "Tne
rb- houses here are run by ladies
rr.-1' no, take boarderS 10 make
-aey are all trying TO SCI a bet
c--.-. ING IN BradSreets' Than Hertv
Houston Post.
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