The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-01
HUNTING A BOARDING HOUSE.
Points by which One Man Made His
Selection
From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
Most young married women, / fancy,
imagine that their husbands are unob-
servant until they undertake their first
house-hunting or clearinghouse hunting
tour together" said clever young Wash
lngton matron the other day. There was
a time when 1 used to demand my hus,
bands services on a boarding house hunt
ing trip simply as an escort-not that I
supposed he knew the first principle of
picking out nice place. or that thought
he could be of any possible help to me-
Now take him along with me as a court
of first and last authority on that subject
Il had my husband along with me a
few days ago when we were due to star,
out on one of those agonizing hunts for
new Hlace. Hypercritical? Why he had
finicky fancies about things that / never
even thought of. We took along a long list
of places with us, as usual. He could tell
just by looking at the outside of one of
the houses on the list what sort of an
outfit'-the way he phrases it-it would
turn out, upon examination, to be- and
also just about the rates the landlady or
landlord would ask for the different rooms
We approached one corner house on our
list up in the northwest. He stood off and
looked it over, and then he said:
She'll want about $S5 a month for the
second-story front SIS for the third-storv
front, and it looks like there might be a
congressman or so In it. In that case.
theyn have a corner on the whole narlor
moor all the towels in circulation, all OF
the servants attendance-the whole thing
Guess wen pass this one up
Il asked him how he knew all those
things He said If we'd go in be,ds he
proven correct. He vas correct. The
landlady was little woman with a red
wig, and long array of faded oil paint
ings on the walls were of her various dead
and-gone husbands. We hadn't been In
the house two minutes before she men
toned her member and Jack looked at
me significantly. She took US through the
rooms she had vacant They were of the
ex-grand kind-massive furniture, shabby
in this era. She wanted 800 for the Two OF
us for the second-hoor front, $50 for the
third-fioor front. Jack gave me a signal
and we left.
1T was thus throughout the entire
search. He would see a couple or I'M
kempt young ones sliding down the step
ratings of one of the houses on orr list
" Not a cleanly house, that he would
say, and upon our going in he was proven
right every time. We mounted the steps
of several houses that really looked eplen-
did. but there would be something dingy
and shabby about the looks of the vesu-
bule and hall and this observant husband
OF mine would Immediately whisper TO me
that the place would not do. We had all
most picked out place, and were making
the usual inquiries about the table when
an overpowering aroma of cabbage came
through the hall.
"-Well. said he to the landlady. we've
got another place on our list further on
down the street. and after we have just a
casual look at that probably Wen come
back here.
when we got outside, Probably bum
table at that house, he said, in his horrid
slangy way, and have no doubt his in
tuition was right. ~
1.-THE place he finally picked out didn't
impress me particularly, for some reason
or other 1t has in reality proven to be
the best boarding house we have yet found