The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-01-18
THE BACHELOR GIRL.
She Locks Herself Out and Has to
Call for Assistance.

Baltimore News. ~t
Living bachelor life in fat is not all
felicity said the young woman, signing
i am feeling sad at this very moment be-
cause, this being the holiday season, have
just had to pay a locksmith for mending
the lock on my front door. The way of 1T
was way of careiessneSs, and it shows at
least one direction in which the bachelor
girl is a failure. You see, 1 forgot my
latchkey when L went out the other night
We all went out. but we did not go to-
gether. and 1 arrived home first. My key
wasn't in my pocketbook, and then re-
membered l had left it on my dressing ia
BILE. in the place it ought not to be.
Now, a man would not have done that
He would probably have had a dozen keys
on a chain. and he would have changed
these TO his evening clothes when he
dressed. and, therefore. have been able to
let himself in as usual. But not so 1.
When L had assured myself that the key
was not in my purse. by dint of turning
out all the unreceipted bills that had found
a resting place there, L sat down on the
stairs to wait for the others.
'"They were an unconscionable time COM
Ing, and / was horribly sleepy, and SO,
after waiting for half hour, arose and
went to work on that wretched door again
with my trunk key, which / had with me.
The trunk key slipped in easily enough,
but it would not unlock the door, and
neither. found, after a moments twisting,
would it come out of the lock again.
Here was hard luck for you. | tugged
at that beastly thing and twisted 1t this
way and that until the other girls came.
and then we all took a turn at it. After
half an hour we gave up.
It's no use,' L said, wen have to
waken Mr.. Gray.
''Mr. Gray is the man who lives in the
fat under us, and who is at once a father
and carpenter to us.
HE came up very willingly, wearing q
heterogeneous costume and reproving air.
How exactly like woman to expect to
open a door with trunk KEY! said he, and
with that he fiddled with that same absurd
key until he broke it off in the lock. Then
he went silently down into his apartments
and brought up a step-ladder and attempt
ed, with its help, to get through the tran
som, but Mr.. Gray is stout and the tran
som is small, and this experiment failed
dismally.
a few minutes came back dragging g
broom He mounted the step-ladder once
more and in some inexplicable manner,
after much fumbling, he at last managed
to push back the bolt and open the door.
lit was 1 o'clock in the morning, though
hate to tell it. What We would have done
without our good neighbor we are still con-
occurring. We could, of course, have slept
i'm the Vestibule, though that would have
been exceedingly unpleasant; we could, no
doubt, have gone to a hotel and spent the
night but that might have occasioned
some gossip, and it would have been an ex-
penSe besides.
: "A woman can do a great deal with a
hairpin but / believe a man can accom-
pIish almost as much with a broom and
some force of character. There is a rumor
to-day that Mr.. Gray is going TO give up
his apartment the first of the year because
he SAYS he doesn't get the sleep he should.
but / am sure it can't be true, for he would
certainly never desert the Misses Micawber
in their hour of adverSity.