The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-20

tho legs. keep on with the neck lines until
you have used up all tho paint on your
brush and there you are
But this has nothing to do with break
ing leases, you think. When he found
offered to help me out In releasing my
self from my obligations.
A few nights after he came around
with a crowd OF congenial spirits. The
spirits, of the male and female order, were
provided with Instruments Of every de-
scrip'ion the only requisite being that
they make plenty Of noise. We kept the
party up, singing, dancing. playing until
an early hour the next morning.
Later in the day the landlord appeared.
If didn't keep quieter, SO he said, the other
tenants would leave
u demonstrated, I had leased the studio
for the year and considered it my privi-
lege to entertain my friends
He didn't see it in that light He
couldn't afford to antagoniZe his other
tenants, he said.
to have parties every night l should have
them. The other tenants were not paying
| my rent.
FINALLY in the heat Of argument he or
dered me out rose in my dignity.
| would go. | would not listen TO another
/ word. began o pack while he was stand
ing there ! informed him that there were
| plenty Of other studios just as good.
II took hall bedroom, borrowed some
space of a friend until got on my feet
again. Really, if you know how, leases
aren't such an awful nuisance
Children stories are rife among the agents
| of fats to rent, One man relates his ex-
perience as follows
She was stately. well dressed, with
shoals of references as to her financial
standing and objected strenuously to
children.
= I will not said she, hire any apart
ment if there are children in the house
Having said this three times, l began to
! believe that she was 50 determined that
might as well capitulate. | am father
and have not the rooted aversion to
children hat the average fiat hunter has,
! but ! obediently crossed the application
| that | had from mother with family
of two and told her that there were no
children in the house and I would not rent
an apartment to any one who had
She made me promise over and over
| The other prospective tenants wero
desirable too. but / believed that a
bird in the hand is worth two in the
bush, and rented the place. She OBJ
jected to paying in advance because she
asserted that after she got IN ana other
tenants brought children it would be her
loss, for she would get right out, Her
husband, forgot to mention, was in every
day evidence
A few days after she was installed in the
new home / called to see II everything
vas all right TO my surprise found that
she had four children. ! was speechless
with surprise. When | recovered de-
manded n explanation.
| tTII
house are enough" she explained.
-S.Io seemed to think that the subject was
| ended, and 1t practically was had got the
| worst Of il. but | never said word I've
rented too many apartments to women to
argue any point if can avoid 1t.
Speaking of the trouble that women
with children have in getting into desirable
fats, said a woman to whom the inter-
! viewer told he above story, Il was looking
around for fats the other day, and was so
tired that stopped at friends house TO
| rest