The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-04-14
RATHER NOTIFYING.

Washington Star: The incident"
remarked the cheerful young Cap
itol Hill ma1ron' just re'", IsNi
York, caused me to feel Very much
truly rural and sylvan-delish and
things; indeed, il did.
My husband, You remember. was
sent over TO New York half Il Year ago
by his department. / went along with
him. A. couple of days after our ar
rival l set out alone from the hotel to
find g boarding house. The huge lists
of boarding houses in the New York
papers only confused me, and so ! did
not take amy selections from. them
along With me-. l determined to rely
upon the Rooms to Let signs in the
windows of houses that looked nice and
clean to me from the outside. l didn't
now New York Very Well, but | was
at least aware of the fact that the
farther uptown YOU go the better and
more reasonable accommodations you
get in the boarding rouse line. So L
boarded II of the Fifth avenue stages,
and when it reached Fifty-fourth
street l deharked and began TO look
around for Rooms to Let signs. The
street looked pretty fine, and l thought
that if l could get a room on Fifty
fourth street near Fifth avenue l
should like it real well. l walked in a
westerly direction, and in the middle
of he block l saw a placard bearing
the single letter r. sticking in one of
the basement windows of "A very fine
house-a house With u remarkably rich
exterior.
That "R" doubtless means
Rooms said | 10 myself, and So
moi without a bit of apprehension that
the prices for rooms in that house
might be q bit TOO high for us-1
walked up the steps and touched the
electric .hnffnn A ranla,,3n,1s locl.o,r
about six and a half feet high and
deadly solemn opened the door for me.
"'Pretty fashionable boarding house,
thought. I don't believe WE will be
able to afford this
The sight of that huge doorman al
most overawed me. but l finally mus
tered up enough nerve to say to him
that j should like TO see the lady OF the
house, and ushered me into a mag.
niticent reception room.
'Wha name shall Hi give he in
quired.
Ion. it's imnnaterial.' I replied. Il
am merely calling to see the rooms
The lackey shot ne II queer. puz-
zled look.
Hi shal see il she is hin he said.
and departed. leaving ne in the vast,
extraordinarily beautiful reception
soon as 1 entered that sumptu-
Gus room that the,e'd be no
possibility of our being able to live
in so splendid a boarding house. but
as long as ! was in l felt that l couldn't
back out and say that l had made a
mistake without exciting suspicion.
and so 1 waited for the appearance of
the lady of the house.
She swept in ~presently-a fine.
stout, handsome white haired woman
of tiftS-fve or so. in Il morning wrap
per that seemed to be all lace. She
received me very sweetly-her manner
We're delightful--and started to say.
smilingly. fear l have o the advan-
tage- WHEN. feeling very confused,
l interrupted her by saying that / had
nner .ly called to look at her apartments.
She regarded me somewhat puzZledly,
for an instant when l said this. and
then she gave a courteous inclination
of the head and said:
81 shall be delighted to show them
to you
Il followed her through the house.
The rooms We're simply too scrumptu-
ous for description. Such tapestries,
such cabinets, such pictures. such cost
ly ~elegance-I was virtually dumb, and
l fear that during the inspection my
conductress thought l was some Door
demented creature, perhaps escaped
from some institution. have seer the
interiors of so many splendid homes,
but none could compare with this one
for subdued splendor.
Er-um-I fear that the rooms
are far beyond our means stam-
mered when, the inspection over,
stood again in the reception room with
the charming woman. I have not in
CURED as to your terms because OF
this feeling. I-er-.' and then l felt
that I was about the color Of a new
brick house. and collapsed utterly. The
fine woman smiled wonderingly ut me,
! Terms? leans" she said. 70