Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1907-01-24
LIFE in A STAND
UP FLAT
The Plant Of a Homeless Man

Ever live in stand-up fat?" in
| CURED Mr.. Jones, not over cheerfully.
NO? Well, ! have lived In one. In
| fact, | live in one now.
1T is m.and-bath-with.all.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS affair."" he
went on and costs S3S a month. The
| parlOr is decorated as beautifully as
an Avenue a wedding cake.
1T is furnished with a mahogany
set OF spiderlegged furniture, uphol-
stored with brocaded silk of delicate
tiEts. There are a bookcase, writ
ing desk Qady's size), a chair for 1t
| and center table of the same wood.
On the floor is rug that cost don't
know what, reduced from my wife
knows what
Separated partly from the main
par,1f by hardwood pretzel work is
"a little second parlor. In it are a
piano, mahogany chair, suitable for
anything but sitting in, and large
box couch. This couch is entirely oc-
cupied by fancy sofa pillows. Then
comes bedroom that must always be
in order because you can look into
it from the parlors and the private
hail.
Beyond this bedroom is another
bedroom. which belongs to my wife
and is usually kept closed. Life is too
short to tell what things occupy the
chairs. Between the bedrooms is the
bathroom.
Further along is the dining room.
With oak furniture, the chairs covered
with leather and very slippery. One
can sit on them at mealtime if he is
hungry. In the kitchen is a small
cane seat chair.
NOV, a horse can stand up all the
tine. Most horses stand up while
sleeping in their stalls. 1t is said also
that stork never sits or lies down,
but man, even though he dwell in a
fiat, wants a place where he can sit
down lie can lie down IN his bed or
in the ba:htub, but where can he sit
down and have any comfort?
What do do? Well, l glance at the
morning papers while sitting at the
breakfast table, and after breakfast
would look around for a comfortable
chair in which | could smoke my pipe
and read the news, but such thing
Is not in the fiat.
80 l stuff my paper in my pocket
and steer for the room back of q
neiShboring barroom. | can sit down
there. The barkeeper knows that
buy a glass of ale there once in a
while in the evening before going to
ned and he does not expect me to buy
anything in the morning. From there
/ go to my work. which does not re-
uuire me TO be on hand very early.
In the evening | have my dinner
sitting on slippery leather bottomed
chair. Then | go into the little second
parlor and drop down on the piano
stool can't damage lhat-and talk
with my wife till l feel the necessity
of sitting down somewhere >" comfort
and resting.
by that time my wife L. Idly to
retire. and l, not being able to sleep
! rs many hours as She go around to
| the room in the rear Of the barroom
! where there are some fairly comfort
| able wooden chairs. BY spending five
cents for a glass of stock ale 1 feel
myself privileged to sit there and
rest for a while.
Now, l could pay for comfortable
chair at home, but there is no place
for it in our stand-up Hat. In the par
lors it would mar the effect of the up
holstered mahogany furniture.
couldn't put it in my little bedroom
without removing my half-width bee
and sleeping on a cot Q
There is room enough IN my wife''
bedroom for only the number of chairs
required to hold the wraps and things
she laws aside on coming in. Such
thing as a comfortable chair in tn
dining room, if there was room for IL
would spoil the oak and leather effect
II have thought of the kitchen as
= last resort; but to tell the truth
there was room there between the ga
range and the washtubs | don't thin
| | would like it for a sitting room.
= when l was a youngster," Nj
Jones concluded, 81 rented wohn un
schlaf thinner in a tenement house o
the East Side and furnished the plaC
comfortably. In it there were a fe
chairs in which persons could sit. Bl
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