The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1903-07-17

uWcllers, however, nave been curcu.
The windows are practically deserted
and the man who finds the steam heat
burden may sit at his dning-rOOm
table In his shirt sleeves and eat his
dinner without the necessity of draw
ing the heavy shades 10 keep the fact
Of his mWOpricty from being hcraldcd
through the twenty odd halls Of the big
building
These be excellent apartments The
eight In every room" offsets the disad-
vantages which arise from being an
object Of curiosity To two score pairs
OF prying eyes set in the heads OF
women whose husbands are just well
enough off TO keep hired girls, thus re-
Ilevlng them Of the necessity Of doing
anything but sit in the window and
look after the affairs of their neigh
bors. Hired girls Pardon is begged Of
One-h half of the ladies resident in the
apartment house. Maids is the word
that should have been used. for al! the
occupants Of the $40 apartments keep
maids. while only those who dwell
In the humber $50 fats have hired
girls.
one fiat in the big building was 10
let, For the Grst time in the history
o! the building there had been an cvic-
tion. The other tenants had hardly
recovered from this shock TO their
pride when something happened to
drive from their heads all thought of
the humiliation attendant on actually
living In n building which had been
contaminated by the presence Of a
man and his wife who did not have
| the price to pay for their rooms. A
young man and young woman came
to look at the vacant apartment The
! young man was about twenty-five
years old and was dressed rs well as
swell tailor could dress him The
young woman, she wasn't u day over
| eighteen. looked as though she had
stepped down from the canvas Of some
modern artist who knew how to paint
! pretty women To- the verge of pcrfcC-
ton. She was jaunty ana d. uy. and
as her clothes were survcyoH by the
eyes in every bay window there was
the same thought in every woman's ;
mind behind the eyes, Those clothes
cost a mint"
The llat Of the cvictcd tenants was
occupied. Bride aud groom surely"
said the women. The day that the
young people moved in NOT woman III
the whole big building went shopping
The pIncs in every bay window, II
the glass had not been thick. would
have been bored through by the in
tensity of the gazes that went several
ly through them. Night fell. 1t was
Mrs. Reynolds who started the thing
She rushed over To Mrs. Brodcrick 5
apartments. They were both SIT
fattcrs, and Of course had no social in
tcrcoursc with the humble S3O-a-month
crs.
"Oh. Mrs. Broderlck. what do yor
think OF It all? Not n bit of furnitur,
went into that fat Never van drov,
up There was nothing but m express,
wagon with lot of queer lookinl
boxes and leather eases. I'm sur,
there's something wrong with thos'
people in No. l."
mo question about It. Mrs. Rey
nolds," said Mrs. BrodcriCk, tina
young fellow and that young girl wer
too handsomely dressed 20 have an!
good about them. | was suspicious tn
minute laid eyes on her That bonnc
came from Nine. Capote's. | know. an,
that dress was from Grcenfern. If tn
social status of these flatS is not KEEP
right shall have to move. What vii
my cousin. Mrs. dc Courcey, say?"
Mrs Brodcrick had a fourth cousi
twice removed. and she had once bee
invited to buy things IT churc
bazar held in Mrs. de Courcey's paI
lors
The $50 fiattcrS took the thing up Tn
same evening. They all knew ther
must be something queer about the q,
Cupants Of No. .. As the days role
OH they became more and more COZ
WINGED that there was somethn
wrong. The young man and the youn
woman must he very early risers wa
the verdict of all the women whe
they had hurriedly finished their brcal
fastS. and had taken their posts in III
windows. Every morning az : o'cloC
the newly moved In tenants wore see
by the watchers to enter the hallwa
and 20 to their apartments The Qucr
was, What are they doiug abroad :
carlyf"
one day there came n shock tn;
nearly shook the vigilant women sent
ucls out of thcic chairs Tho nam,
Of thc new tenants had been placed ,
the letter box in the lower hallwa
The names were Charles l.. Ieitre!
and Miss Isabelle Leavenwor,h. III
discovery Of the posting " the nam
was made 10y a $50 hat,er. who us,
ihe startling bit of Information to 5
cure an entrance into the apartments
and a welcome along with it-of tho
whose husbands could 60 her husbal
$40 a month better in the matter
rent
"Scandalous; they're not married
said Mrs. Broderick. What vii Nj
&c Courcey say"
The landlord must know this
aacc" said Mrs. ReyuOlls aal all 4