The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-04


u there is a big fiat building
which is built in three sec
I=O- tons so arranged that ey-
k9N lal cry tenant can look into
every other tenants win
dows. There are many tenants, and |
a large part Of them are afflicted with |
a trouble which manifests itself in an |
elongation Of the neck. All the fat |
dwellers, however, have been cured. |
The windows are practically deserted |
and the man who finds the steam heat |
a burden may sit at his dining-room
table in bis shirt sleeves and eat his |
dinner without the necessity Of draw
ing the heavy shades to keep the fact
OF his improperly from being heGalded
through the twenty odd halls of the big
building
These be excellent apartments. The
slight 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-
lieving them of the necessity of doing
anything but sit in the window and
lock 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 fats have hired
girls.
One fiat in the big building was to
let For the first time in the history
of the building there had been an eyic-
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 a
man and his wife who did not have
the price to pay for their rooms. A
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 well as
a swell tailor could dress him. The
young woman, she wasn't q 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 persac-
ton. She was jaunty and dainty, ard
as her clothes were surveyed by the
eyes in every bay window there was
the same thought in every womaa's
mind behind the eyes, Those clothes
cost a mintr'
The fiat of the evictod tenants was
occupied Bride and groom surely, .
said the women. The day that the
young people moved in not a woman in
the whole big building went shopping
The panes in every bay window Il
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. Br0derick'S
apartments. They were both S4C
tiatters, and Of course had no social in
tercourse with the humble S30-a-month
ers.
ooh, Mrs. BrodericE. what do yoI
think Of it all? Not bit Of furniture
went into that fat Never a van drov,
up. There was nothing but an express
wagon with lot Of queer lookin:
boxes and leather cases. I'm sur
there's something wrong with thos
people in No. T."
mo question about it, Mrs. Rey
nolds," said Mrs Broderick, "tha
young fellow and that young girl wer
too handsomely dressed to have an.
good about them. was suspicious til
minute I laid eyes on her. That bonnie
came from Anne. Capota's, l know, an
that dress was from Greenfern. If til
social status of these Cats is not KEEP
right I shall have to move. What wi
my cousin, Mrs. de Courcey, say?'
Mrs Broderick had q fourth cousi
twice removed, and she had once bee
invited to buy things at a churc
bazaar held in Mrs. de Courcey's PAL
lors
The $50 fatters took the thing up tn
same evening. They all knew the1
must be something queer about the o.
cupauts of No. Z. AS the days role
on they became more and more COZ
WINGED that there was somethin
wrong. The young man and the youn
woman must be very early risers va