Evening journal., 1897-09-09
HER FIRST LESSON.
She Learned from IL a Truth as I'm
cbnngeabIc as the Heavens.

cbangeabIe as the Heavens.
The small, anxious woman who was
keeping the boarding house suspected
that he was a crank the moment she
saw him. What first excited her sus-
picion was the fact that, although he
was very thin. he habitually wore a
frock coat. There is something about
thin man in Prince Albert coat that
invariably excites the distrust of his
fellow men. She was not surprised
when this boarder came to her with the
announcement that he was going to
leave.
I'm very sorry" she answered. 81
have done my best to make it comfort
able"
"You have, indeed. 1 have been pro-
foundly impressed by your solicitude
for my well being and assure you that
as / journey onward through lifC, per-
haps never to encounter this boarding
house again, it will be sweetly refresh
ing to recall that sometime and some
where I have known a landlady who
gave a thought to her boarders other
than to keep tab on when the rent came
due"
The lady heaved a little sigh and
blushed.
"If you feel that way about it," she
said, Il don't see why you are going to
leave us"
"I can't stand suspense" was the an
swer. present discomfort is better
than complete ease combined with a
future that bristles with the terrors of
uncertainty. 1 am becoming attached
to this place. would rather move now
and break the ties while they are still
slender than linger till the frost comes
again and be obliged to have my traps
carted around town while seek other
lodgings in cold weather"
but 1 don't see why you will have
to move at ALL"
"You are not experienced in running
boarding house"
{ It's true that have been engaged in
= this business only a short time. But l
don't see how you found it out. /
thought 1 was providing exceedingly
good accommodations"
"Yes. The excellence Of the estab-
. lishment in all its branches was what
, first excited my suspicion. Then I re-
! solvedtoput you to the test. Iknew that
4 l could determine with absolute accur-
! acy whether you were novice and all
. this care and attention TO detail merely
e the results of early enthusiasm. You
r will remember that this morning l said
r something at breakfast about the cof-
fees being rather slow TO settle"
IL 10 ~ rl
! you to call attention to it before folks
= and l gave the cook good talking to
4 about it. I am sure it will not occur
: again"
= The thin boarder looked down upor
e her and smiled indulgently.
(. at is too bad, he commented, "tha
d this solicitude which does you so mucl
n credit should have been the means o
y my detecting your secret. Had yoI
= been old in the business, when yol
= heard me say that it took the coffee
II long time to settle, you would have cas-
an icy look around the table and sale
that it reminded you of some people
That is form of repartee that was in
! vented shortly after Adam and Eve lef
the Garden of Eden TO look for other &C
N commodations, and no one but begin
la ner would have let the opening pass.
k am sorry, but 1 prefer the peace o
c. mind that comes from n settled polio
TO basking in the sunshine of luXur
at only to see it, day by day, obscured b
" the shadow of n mercenary econom,
Us This evening win pay you the seve
81 dollars and half that 1 owe you an
~ then we win part"
% A long. hard line that had never bee
III there before came into the face of th
n little landlady. She had taken her fir'
al lesson in the eternal truth that II
es more one tries to please people the les
II. one is likely to succeed.-Detroit Ere
Press.
all
wv ECONOMY.