Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1903-07-30

I!l9ll ll9lI cry tenant can look into
every other tenants win
dows. There are many tenants, and
large part of them are afflicted with
Il trouble which manifests itself in an
elongation of the neck. All the fiat
jewellers, however have been cured.
The windows are practically deserted
and the man who finds the steam heat
burden may sit at his dining-room
table in his shirt sleeves and eat his
dinner without the necessity Of draw
ing the heavy shades to keep the fact
of his improperly from being heralded
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-
lievins them of the necessity of doing
| anything but sit i'm the window and
look after the affairs of their neigh
bors. Hired girls! Pardon is begged of
one-half of the ladies resident In the
apartment house. Maids is the word
that should have been used. for all the
occupants of the $40 apartments keep
maids, while only those who dwell
in the humber $50 flats have hired
girls.
! One fat in the big building was to.
let For the first time in the history
of the building there had been an evic-
| ton. 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 a building which had been
contaminated by the presence OF
| man and his wife who did not have
| the price TO pay for their rooms. \
young man and q young woman came
TO look at the vacant apartment. The
! young man was about twenty-five
years old and was dressed as we'll as
swell tailor could dress him. The
young woman. she wasn't n 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 perfec-
ton. She was jaunty and dainty, and
as her clothes were surveyed by the
eyes in every bay window there was
the same thought in every woman's
mind behind the eyes, Those clothes
cost mint"
The fiat of the evicted tenants was
occupied. Bride and groom surely"
said the women. The day that the
young people moved in not woman in
, the whole big building went shopping.
1 The panes in every bay window, If
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. Broderick's
| apartments. They were both $40
| fiatters, and of course had no social in
tercourse with the humble $30-a-month.
ers.
"Oh, Mrs. Broderick. what do you
think of it all? Not a bit of furniture
went into that fiat. Never van drove
up. There was nothing but an express
wagon with a lot Of queer looking
! boxes and leather cases. I'm sure
! there's something wrong with those
people in No. l."
mo question about It. Mrs. Rey-
nolds," said Mrs Frederick. that
young fellow and that young girl were
too handsomely dressed TO have any
good about them. was suspicious the
] minute laid eyes on her. That bonnet
| came from Nine. Capote's. know. and
| that dress was from Greenfern If the
| social status OF these flats is not kept
right l shall have to move. What will
my cousin, Mrs. de Courcey, say?"
Mrs. Frederick had fourth cousin
twice removed. and she had once been
invited to buy things Mt n church
bazaar held in Mrs. de Courcey's par
lors.
The $50 fiatters took the thing up the
same evening They all knew there
must be something queer about the oc-
cupants OF No. Z. As the days rolled
on they became more and more con-
vlnced that there was something
wrong. The young man and the young
woman must be very early risers was
the verdict of all the women when
they had hurriedly finished their break
fasts. and had taken their posts in the
windows. Every morning at O'Clock
the newly moved in tenants were seen
! by the watchers to enter the hallway
and go to their apartments. The query
was. What are they doing abroad so
early?"
One day there came shock that
nearly shook the vigilant women sentl-
nels out of their chairs The names
of the new tenants had been placed on