Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1897-02-02
QUEER NOTICES TO QUIT.
Some of the Reasons For Moving Given
BY Dissatisfied Tenants. q

Some of the Reasons For Moving Given
BY Dissatisfied Tenants.
London Tit-Bits.
Draughty rooms, smokey chimneys,
high rents and ghosts are classical rea-
sons for giving up occupancies, but the
same can hardly be said of the excuses
made by many people who develop a
desire to get out of their holdings.
man who has had the letting of
houses for twenty years recently re-
counted a few of his experiences in con-
nection with this phase of his occupa-
tion. and selection of them may prove
interesting reading to many.
Il can't stand it any longer" was the
remark of man who came with his nos
tice in his hand. The people in the next
house live on bloatersl It's herrings for
breakfast, behring's for dinner, and her
to open door or a window for the odor
that emanates from them. 1t perme-
ates every room in the house, and all
our belongings smell of 1t. I'll have no
more of the wretched thing; SO you can
look out for another tenantl
1t was quite q different reason that a
lady had for quitting a tenement she
had occupied for three years and half
AT the back of the house she rented
was lawn, adorned with flower beds
and an arbor, which formed a delightful
retreat on summers afternoon. Here
the lady spent many pleasant half
hour and would have done so again,
but that her peace of mind had been
rudely disturbed by a neighbor, who,
developing sudden hobby, erected an
apiary in his garden, and devoted him
self enthusiastically to the manufacture
of honey. An occasional swarm of bees
round the lady's ears, just as she was in
the middle of siesta, was more than she
cared for; hence her determination to go.
1t is not an unusual thing for a person
to give a dwelling In consequence of
its contiguity to public house, but to
leave one for the exactly opposite reason
is g. much rarer occurrence. Such, now
ever, was the motive assigned by an
artisan for getting out of his cottage.
ITS like this" he said, in explanation.
IT never keep beer in the house; it gets
fiat and improbable under the parlor
stairs. like my ale fresh drawn and
served up in something like condition,
and / find the public's the place to get
this. Now, there isn't a licensed house
within q. quarter of a mile of where l
live. and 440 yards except for sprinter)
is too far to fetch a pint O. dinner beer
before the potatoes get cold. You can
put my shanty on the ITO Let listw
Superstitious tenants are the people
that the, house agent has to reckon with
A newly developed district on the bor-
ders of provincial town was lately taxi
en- in hand by the local authority and
the houses numbered. A tenant whose
house got the number '13" went in hot
haste to the agent with a notice to quit,
being sure, he said. that i'll luck would
be his portion If he stayed. In similar
manner another nervous one gave up a
house because for three nights in sue
cession he heard the whoo-whoo of a
luckless owl in some tree near by.
A facetious tenant wound up his quit
notice with the following laconic SEN
fences: 1.-THE doors won't shut and the
windows won't open; the fires won't
draw up and the blinds won't draw
down; the water won't turn on and the
gas won't turn off; the rooms are too
small and the cracks in the walls too
Qarge; the rent is too high and my in
come too low"
There is little in the giving up of
house to call forth poetic feeling and
sentiment, but tenant once accom-
panied his notice to leave with the sub
joined effusion:
The best of friends must part; tbs ever SO;
Your house and 1 are friends, and /
content
Then why not stay? you urge. IT'S this;
although
like your house. do not like your
rent!