The Saint Paul globe., 1898-03-27
TOUGH ON THE INFANTS
SWELL WASHINGTON FLATS RE-
FUSE TO HARROR THEM
Eviction OF n Proud Father--F0r-
getfuI of the Clause in His Lease
Which Forbade the Introduction
OF Children Into This DeCOroUs
Domicile, He WAS Compelled to
Move.
From the Washington Post

From the Washington Post.
There are several apartment houses in
Washington that bar out children under u
years of age. There is a no-children clause
when they move into these apartment houses.
The nc-children clause. however, does not
provide against certain contingencies.
young Washington lawyer took a cosy
fat in one of these anti-youngster apartment
houses, considerably uptown something over
a year ago. He took it Immediately upon his
return from the Niagara-Fal!s- and -a-we week-in-
New-York expedition that most level-headed
men embark upon before they are 80, and his
pretty young wife converted the fiat into such
a bower of beauty that the young lawyer
forgot all about stag smokers and quarter
limit. and such like wicked things.
One morning last week the young lawyer
came down town with a grin of very unusual
proportions spread over his fact In the eyes
of his friends down town he was not much
more insutferable than young men generally
are under similar circumstances. but he was
pretty bad and good deal of nuisance, at
that, with this it-never- happened in
the-world's shistory grin blanketing his coun-
tenance. He spread the usual number of
cigars and drinks around his friends and ac-
quaintances, and they treated him as cvilly
as they could considering the huge breadth,
height and depth of his cerebral elephantasis.
His regular remark all day was this:
Its a boy of course-what the dickens
else did you suppose it 'ud be? Fourteen
pounder at that-stronger'n Sandow-going
to make a prize fighter of him. Have an
other"
When he reached his apartment house that
evening. the elevator boy handed him note.
1t was from the middle-aged woman who
acted care-taker of the apartment house
and it read:
My Dear Sir: 1 sorry, for you have
been good tenant up to the present time,
but you remember what it says in the lease
about no children in this building. OF
course l have to mind instructions from the
owners am sorry, indeed, that this has
happened and that 1 forced to re-
quire you to turn your fiat over to me as
soon as possible.
The missive was a stunning blow to the
young lawyer.
Hanged If didn't forget all about tha,
when he had read it. what the deuce could
1 have been thinking about, anyhow But
even If ! had thought about it-well-er-]
guess It wouldn't have made much difference
But law Is law and a clause Is a clause
and although don't think this especial clause
it were. I guess We'll have to move all right
when we can get around to IT.
Then he wrote to the middle-aged care
taker as follows:
Dear MadamI I am truly grateful for
your acknowledgements sympathy in
the affiiction that has overwhelmed me.
Believe me-, l had no thought Of violating
siderably from absent t-mindedness. That
clause to which you make reference quite
escaped my treacherous memory. I hone
you'll overlook it and forgive meEthe whole
three OF US, in fact-this time. I'll move at
the end of the month. of course, for /
don't don know OF any orphan asylum hereabouts
that would accept 30 youthful citizen as
the youngest member of my family. Trust
ing that you will believe that l am going
to be good hereafter am, 60.