Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-06

plain of a dentist, unless the latter adver
tfses as "surgeon-dentist.
Much of the secret of these controversies
is In the long leases which are customary
here in Paris There is no getting out of
a long lease without the landlords permits
sion, because there is regulation clause
| forbidding its assignment Why, when
these friends of mine were treating for
their lease of the $40 Champs Elysee
apartment, they said: Suppose, when we
go away for the summer. we have a
chance TO rent the fiat furnished for few
months?"
you will pay US so much extra" came
the answer IF you sublet il the apart
ment becomes more valuable to you. You
make something out of it. We must have
our share of that profit"
If you want quiet and dignity. go into a
mouse occupied ''bourgeoisement." In these
| in particular the two universal obligations
| to enjoy the premises as a good family
man and to use the premises according to
It's destination, are most strictly observed
Like Good Father.
To enjoy the premises as a good father
of family-affecting phrase-means you
must take care of the rented premises and
| their reputation as if they We're your own
and you the careful father of a family
Thus the recent order of a judge forbade
! the tenant complained of to begin piano
practice before 10 a. m or to continue after
| 10 pm, with the further obligation to in
termlt the music during at least two hours
Gavin dsS- 81, even though the use OF a
sewing machine is not forbidden the ten
ant, he Cor she) may run it only on condi-
ton that it shall be mounted on pads of
| a thickness and quality sufficient to render
Its noise tolerable, and that it shall not be
worked all day.
The obligation to enjoy the premises in
TINS way really amounts to an obligation
| 10 pehaVe as if the whole house were your
own ana you nervous landlord, dreading
the complaints of capricous tenants 1t Is
| our old friend the Golden Rule put into
practice for once: DO unto others as Won
would that they should do unto YOU
You may not shake a rug out of the win
dow on the courtyard after 10 am You
may nave but one reception afternoon a
week
The obligation to use the premises "ac-
cording to its destination unites two 9th
ers-the tenant may not cease to use the
rented premises during the existence of
MS lease, and must not employ them for
any other object than that set down in the
lease.
The Janitor.
In all his dealings with his tenant the
Paris landlord has a go-between-the.con-
| cierge or janitor The Importance of this
strange being cannot be exaggerated 1t
is usually a woman, oftenest the mother of
a family. All day she sits in her room be-
side the big door of the house where
every one must pass her going In and out.
According as she is disposed for good or
evil, your existence will be troubled or
tranquil There some concierges so
malicious, so revengeful against fortune
KIND treatment will touch them. Should
she desire to give you pain, she may in
suit your guests who ask for you; she may
say you are in when you are out and
make them climb the stairs for nothing:
| or, vice versa, she may tell them you are
out when you are in, and bring about mis-
| understandings and heart-burnings She
may neglect to send up your letters. She
| in ,N,,I1
that you have injured the stairway carpet
She may advise inquiring tradesmen not to
trust you. She may even refuse Gor the
momenO to allow the trunk of visiting
friend to go upstairs, pretending she sus-
poets you of establishing a boarding house
The Paris landlord believes and follows
the decisions of his concierge, and so is
ruled by her, although in law she is his
domestic servant. AS such she may be
discharged on eight days notice
Duties of This High Parsonage.
The duties of a concierge to her proprie-
tor are summed up in a word; she ought to
keep him notified of all the doings of lis
tenants, and he will come and sit and
chat with her with the relish of a reader
OF indiscreet personal memoirs. AS to the
tenants, her legal duties are:
The concierge must receive all letters
packages or objects addressed to the ten
ants. She may not open the tenants let
tiers, even though she suspects the tenant
to be contemplating mischief to the land
lord. She is responsible for the loss or
theft of objects conf1ded to her She must
send up to the tenant all letters and OBJ
jects left for them.
The concierge is competent to receive SER
vice of legal process for any tenant of the
house she guards, excepting process in cases
| in which her proprietor is concerned. Thus
tradeSman may sue you for a bill. You
may have lodged him for weeks. and feel
able to dodge his stamped paper for more
weeks. The concierge will hand the sum-
! mons to you, grinning. Or, if she be your
friend, she will send the court runner on a
false scent, pretending that she did not I'M
derstand the name.
The concierge must open the great door
of the house for tenants, their friends and
visitors at any hour of the day or night.
And when the tenant rents stable in the
court yard, he may drive in at 0hy hour of
the day or night. question has come up
about automobiles. The Comte de la Roche
foucauld rented an apartment to a rich
French lady. She had the right to drive
her carriage into her stables on the court
When she sold her horses and sent up an
automobile the comte's concierge refused to
let the machine come in. Had he the right?
No, says the judge. A proper automobile is
just as proper vehicle as a carriage and
pair.
Coward to the Concierge
The concierge ought to indicate to visitors
the floor on which the tenant lives and not
prevent their going upstairs under pretext
tnat sne Tears That they Will muddy the
stair carpet. The founder of the Colonne
concerts has coming to his apartments sew
eral high-class girl music students, many of
them Americans, who come, accompanied
by their mothers only in the mornings A
year ago the concierge of the house began
campaign against them. In the case on
which the suit was founded he (this time
| it was a he) grossly insulted a smart girl
and her mother. The landlord upheld his
concierge, and NJ Colonne, suing to have
the Objectionable concierge removed, had
| twelve months legal fight to get his rights
There is no hiding it, the average Partisan
is afraid of his concierge. My own has
chosen laundress for me- When seek to
employ another l know that all kinds of
little miseries may be expected. This house
has no back stairway. Nevertheless there
is clause in the lease in which L forbid
myself to have wood, coal, provisions or
large packages brought up after 10 am
The concierge may insist on the strict OBJ
servance Of this stipulation. When the gas
pipes froZe this winter she forced me to
go on employing the stupidest plumber In
the Observation-Disclosures plumber of the
house" If l do not keep on good terms
with her she will tell visitors | am out
She is capable of refusing letters, pretend
ing that she could not make out the foreign