The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-06-03
WESTERN lANDLADY
TELLS EXPER!ENs
Amuses a Group of Washington
Women With Her Quaint
Stories.
WAS ON RETIRED LIST
Willing Admitted That She Had Served
Long Apprenticeship and Was
Now Enjoying Old Age as
An OLD Maid.
WAS ON RETIRED LIST

An o'a Ma'o.
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Washington Star: On one of those re-
con, etor,nv SNOWY nights thar made all
~ -ooo's ~ ''t"' ~
party OF iolNs, the majority OF 'hehi pe4ie
young women, were willing the time away
.e1line e,nries moro ar less erruesorne in
80. ~. ,,o,,s
winter @Tsninf, Vino al the same ,!me
they were engaged in assisting a hostess
in en~tartatni4g a visitor from northern
P-ernsvlyania Who was a elest Of the lazy
of ma heiis,. The |Nisitov. who was well
advanced In vear.. 4ss q long time-forty
ye,lrs or rlore as slc hegse1f aeknowl-
sat-5aAfaf bgan The =urotftetress of g
boarding house in "A western city. The
v,t1t-.r ones bad about reached the end
IL tt5r t.s.brr in a.. recital OF gloomy
..a} 4ecui5. lar warns Whom one Of mem
saf5sfo fee yI= nor. come. IT'S you. turn.
So, II at va bags Iat4 n tories of events
eilafH Fstnta3a3 I'M ,-ottr long career as a
hi 1a4y IJaveatf yon. now,
.s-a, 7l.s,s. aa chi,ned i'm tho 9TH
on. 'rY,r, vyoTb4nst take "no't for an M
$50. - . posa ,,atnre5 ard very Ia
.stH.eent ala la5y caDtiyated b1 their an
aI,t,al,n5 f9r,h- irtc ,eei,al Of
- @.-a,tancas Union En,,t Nor listen
nc .,.,ntc,,nd 1,ntf, mo ,irsa came i'm
"a ~ -. ,,aaa ,iel,+
served Long APPreHticesh'p.
she began by SAVING es, my Gears
l viii tell You 4 fe" incldents ana epispdes
that came under my observation when
took boarders. i had a long appFentlce-
sup at the business, ana Wl!llhslH ADMIT
that | am on the retired list ca account
OF age"
Here she arenthetleally declared her
opinion that 1t wouldn he q bad idea 10
pension old l1ndlaGleS. Ike Ola SOlGlerS,
land L wish" she said, this young lady
here" indicating the daughter OF a wen
known member of congress. would in
dlce her honorable pa to Introduce a BIZ
Tor the relief of s-uperannuated boarding
house Keepers Then she began her
story, or stories.
Many episodes' humorous araii'atIcal'
pathetlc anu tfasle'i, hase hapieie" N
housea Wnele ! ooA 'i o"' -,
sst' atH i wa ~ y" ,n -
.fete en"' : - ei, ,,5
my HoIse orue gay q oulis e.ta
ms piluS, NY sei.ns PeJP1e, %.a
itaq nv - 80
tae hecuc Ilush III ne c"eens on ene souns
""'Iah aHu q S,et.'tis a. nc =.
mss ui Ntc ~ %. ~ "a - H%ppH ".
y oAt". ~ W. 10y " w w.
Eouhs huse1hu. ~ T" 80 y ny
qules ioo months "heit ~ re ; 1slis "p 80.
Ht WIS 'aN,A 49, ~ @ 80 -
were promptly ciiie., "Hq ote OF .aVlii
sAlq . AT aitei -. ~, i"i " ~ ;I ~
tauoA oHo oas ~ 30! @SS W. " so.
81 ~ out nst 80 ~ tr go, - -
~ 49, 49,, in.,,iti,e
y s'ue. ! sesitsu y q st - .u..r
- ~ sne ~ ~ soio,,s -, rs
a :, ~ M,s :, la 20 tpa A. q
- 1ae - o.tS - ~. ain,os. n,oroant;.
va 49, 49, ~ IN no .ha ,,orst
T . -. nifa y, - ny Ne "
- my "'ie Wy w
rSo ma I'LL lIyfN
"'It is my duty the doctor said. TO
tell you to prepare for the worst. Your
wife will never survive this night The
stricken man never said a word. His face
turned the color of snow. He walked i'm
mediately into another room and blew his
brains out. The wife never knew. She
passed beyond the shadows of death be-
fore sunrise next morning. That" she
said, was the most ~tragical as we'll as
the most pathetic event l ever noticed.
"But life" she went on. 'particularly
boarding house life, is not all made up
of gloom and misery. There are nnumer-