The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-18
WARE OF BACHELOR TENANTS
WOES or TIE UOi STREET.-THE
VINO 81 BLETS MIR FLAT.
Even tho Best OF Men Can Make Havoc In a
single Summer-Bab.cs Lesser EVIL.
Saws One who Has Trird-Furniture
sure to suffer at Their HANDS

This is the time of year when the bachelor
of small means turns III. attention to house
keeping Visions Of kitchen hover IN
his mind and longing To- get hold OF Il frying
pan fills his breast. And all because small,
furnished uptown flats may toe rented
from now till October at about half price.
But il is not 50 easy now to hire one as
i, was half a dozen years ago. Bachelors
a. tenants nave been tried and in some in
stances at least. found sadly wanting.
Women who once enthused over the bache
Tor tenant are now dscre 'tly silent when
the subject is preached, and they are less
lev toward the applicant with baby. One
of them. indeed, went so far the other day
as to say this
Il would rather have half dozen children
in nv fat this summer than a couple of
bachelors.
take il all in all. said she, Il have come
to the conclusion that tie average man
housekeeper unaicled by woman is apt to
make a lress Of the job.
Almost any one who has ever rented
n housekeeping apartment to man knows
this and like mys elf, is not willing to dupli-
cate the experience. Let ne tell you of
my luck.
Last year | wanted to rent my fiat Of
six rooms and bath and get away for the
3 nrl,r.
I'VE advert, ised and advertised for nearly
two weeks, and it seemed to lis that every
body in that neghborhood was doing pre-
Ciscly the same thing, just when we had
aim st dcspaired of getting a respectable
tenant along cane three yulln K men, as nice
hoy. az one would wish To see clean,
healthy looking and able to give us the best
OF references.
"Trey were clerks with small salaries
and tired of living in hall bedrooms. They
neither drank strong liquors nor smoked,
and ON Sundays they Were en- gagged In mis-
sion work in IL e slums. One of them was to
he married in the fall, md he said that the
preliminary housekeeping experience might
come in handy.
He was a splendid cook, he told me,
having c"mpcd out lot. md was just
aching to show the boys what he could do.
noticed that he was more Interested III the
kitchen than in any other room Of the lat,
TO my question if they expected a woman
to come in to Cle'n once week or So the
youn cest id: oh, dc.r, no. we mean TO
keep everything, in apple pie order our
but when found that each had come from
good New England home ! gave in
so far ar morals went the young men
were irrcprcachahlc. But her" is the
way they kept house, as learned later:
After hearty breakfast, which one or
all Of them PREF AIRED, the trio started down
town about halt-past s O'Clock, having
the dishes unwashed and the scraps Of
food standing on H." table in the dining
room and in the kitchen; lcds unmade
and the windows wide open. Al 5 in the
afternoon thov turned up again, unless
they went off for trip somewhere out Of
town IN which cas-" tn" house work was
delayed until midnight or so. Some times,
| imagine, it wa, delayed for days Beds
were made once week and dishes were
washed as NODDED
The one who had promised to keep the
place in apple pie order welded broom,
he told me, cverv Sunday morning from
end to end of the fiat. We wern to get pos
session again Of the place on Monday,
and the Saturday afternoon previous my
husband went UP to SEQ the young men.
He found one Of them at the washtubs. a