The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-10

Chicago Tribune.
 The science of keeping a boarding house has been discovered by New York wo- man who Suns seventeen successfully. There are Just two cardinal principles in the business, according to Mrs. Louise Dressner, who is the successful operator
 Tt is matter of cleanliness and rent in advance" she says. The one makes the place desirable to the boarders and landlady."
 She is systematic in her efforts to ss- cure and maintain cleanliness in all her seventeen places, and a paper hanger and painter are constantly in her employ ment.
 At her headquarters she has two sheds. and they are the shrine of her business. They contain the paints and wall papers with which the 'freshening up Is done, and this process contains what she consid- CTS the keynote of her success.
 It is because she has been successful where most women fail is what gives in- terest to her method of running her nu- merous boarding houses. In addition to her two cardinal principles she has sev- eral other of minor importance. but stilb important.
 Lectures Them Once e Week.
 Once @ week Mrs. Dressner assemblies her seventeen boarding house keepers at her headquarters and gives them lec- ture on the ethics of running such a place
 "The new ones always cry when they come to the meeting" said Mrs. Dressner, but they soon get over that. They soon learn what is expected of them. I don't want them to work. hire domestics to do that. I want them to manage the places and see that the boarders pay their bills"
 Prompt payment to the day is demand ed in all of the seventeen boarding houses. We always try to be polite," says Mrs. Dressner. We give them one day, then at the end of that day. if they have not paid, we write them letter.
 'If at the end of the second day the to vanf hax AnA hatr rooms locked when they return. If later they come in and give the housekeeper the money the key is handed to them without word. But many boarder has set up in the office all night when he couldn't get to his room"
 Refuses to Employ Women.
 She employs none but men around her houses. They will not gossip, she says. They will not be at pains to discover any. thing about her boardeds and they will not carry tales from one boarder to an- other. She never meets her tenants. They deal with her superintendents she places in the different houses. They never reach her with complaints or pleas The super intendents are women. She pays her ser wants every day.
 Mrs. DressneE has another point in her favor. Physically she is one of the strong est women in the country. She can mova pianos without assistance and can per form feats of which professional strong men place their reputation. She once met sandow and astonished him by lifting weights which he thought were beyond the power of any woman to manage.
 "I have hair of the same quality as she said. discussing her strength "You know Samsons was coarse and was indicative of his great strength. My hair is of the same quality. However, I do not consider my strength the cause of my success as a boarding house keeper.
 "Boarders are like sheep. What one does the other wants to do. and if one owes money to the iandlady t6l the rest think they should also live at her expense. It gets about in no time that she is easy