The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-07-03

AND BOTH OF the WOMEN WE'RE
" : = ANXIOUS TO HIRE IT.

A Quiet Little Fencing Match which
strikingly illustrates Some of tho
Peculiar Phases of Feminine HUI
man Nature.
This particular fat was bargain at the
advertised monthly rental. 1t was gem.
1t had all the m. is, was new, in q nice
neighborhoOd and was bargain.
At 3 o'clock the other afternoon good
looking young married woman got the
key to the Hat from the janitor and start
to look through 1t. She looked decidedly
pleased as soon as she entered the Hat.
She was In the front room, admiring the
tint of the wall paper. when she heard a
rustling In the rear end of the fat. She
pcered back and saw another nice looking
young married woman looking over the
kitchen fixtures.
"Well, ncycr!" said she to herself. II
really wonder II that woman thinks she
is going TO get this flat?"
Then she walked to the rear end with
certain air Of dissatisfaction. The fiat
hunter examining the kitchen fixtures
looked at her out of the corners Of her
eyes.
Good afternoon" they said to each
other.
"Are you looking over this flat?" in
quircd the woman who had got the key
from the janitor amiably.
II just dropped in to see what 1t looked
like" said the other, looking around
somewhat disdainfully. "But it's SO pitt
ably tiny, isn't it?"
"Just precisely what was thinking"
said the woman with the key. Entirely
too small for my purpose. One feels rs il
one were boxed up in trunk in these lit
tie apartments, don't you Think"
swell, l never lived in any apartment
SO small as this, and So Of course, don't
really know" replied the other.
("I wonder IL the horrid thing expects
me to believe that?" thought the woman
with the key. II wouldn't be surprised
il she's keeping house in one room this
very minute.")
'.An1 the closets are so small, too,
aren't they?" she said aloud. Il don't
see how l could get along with SO little
closet space"
'Oh, well, keep my costumes in cedar
chests, and the chests could be slowed in
the spare bedroom!" replied No. 2. But,
really, there isn't even enough room in
these closets for my husbands clothes"
C'Costumcs" thought the woman with
the key. Costumes The idea! And l
wonder IL she expects me to believe that
her husband is Berry Wall"D
81 think the wall paper is awfully gar
ish, don't you?" she said aloud.
''Dreadfully So said the other.
"Of course it's tiled bathroom and
porcelain tub, but what little, short tub
it isl" said No. 2, peering into the bath
room. MY, the whole fiat looks as if it
were built for midgcts.'
'And the hall is so small that one
would have to walk sideways through
it," added No. |. "My husband is q big
looking through this little fiat with n
view to fixing his future residence here"
well, of course, one has TO live in ac-
cordance with ones income" said No.
amiably. I'm sure this gas range
wouldn't bake nicely. Do you think it
would?'
Really. don't know much about bak-
ing, you know" replied the woman with
the key. II never bake. We've an old
nanny with us who hns been in our
famly-oh. since the flood She was my
mothers maid, and she is splendid
baker"
c'Her mothers maid, indeed" thought
No. 2. "Well, Of all the pretensious wo.
menu
"These new hnthouses seem to be built
so flilnsily," she said aloud. "The doors
settle and refuse to lock, and the win
dOws get out of plumb, and-oh, every
thing! Really, l believe the old people
when they say that houses used to be
built so much more substantially than
they are nowadays! Why, the walls of our
old homestcnd-it was built by my grcat--
great grandfather, in colonial days, you
know-are more than two feet thick"
c'Mercy mo, her great-grcat grandpa
thcr!" thought the woman with the key.
Nov, why doesn't she go right straight
back to Adam and be done with it? Try
ing to advertise to everybody that she
had n great-great-grandfather!)
Il suppose the other flats are just filled
with crying young Ones" she went on.
aloud, land children running and yelling
through the halls"
THAT is the beauty of having a whole
house to yourself" said No. 2, with n
smile that the firm set Of her lips belied.
"My three little ones SO enjoy the free
dom of our home now. But, then, the
lease has expired, and the landlord wish
es to occupy the house himself"
C''l suppose her young ones shout and
yell just like all other, children, don't
they?" thought No. u
And then one has always to take the
chance in moving into n fiat of having
some awful pounding piano teacher in the
next apartment" said No. 2.
ooh, should give up all my pupils il
! took fat" said No. !.
c'My, she's teacher herself" thought
No. 2. "Wcll, just don't care-she's not
going to have this flat.'D
This fiat might do for some very
young couple just starting in" summed
up No. l. But, gracious me, we couldn't
think of taking it,"
".Iust what think" assented No. 2,
and the two walked down stairs, nodding
IL farewell TO each other as they reached
the main floor. No. l turned in the key
to the janitor
"l'm going down to the agent to en-.
gage the fat" she announced.
No. . had already gone. She got into
n cab, telling the driver to proceed rap
idly to the agents number on F street.
No. / also got into cab and gave SINH
lar instructions to the driver. but she had
lost time in speaking with the janitor.
and she was too Int. She met No. 2 and
got n radiant smile from her coming out