The Cairo bulletin., 1907-01-14
LIFE In A STAND.
UP FLAT
The Plant OF a Homeless Man

Ever live In a.-gtand.up dat2" in.
CURED Mr. Jones. not over cheerfully
no? Wen, ! have lived in one. In
fact ! live IN one now
~ is a siSroomand.batb withaIl
| Observation-Disclosures AFFAIR" hc
went on ana costs $2S a month. The
paiAor is decorated as beautifully as
an Avenue a wedding cake.
1T is furnished with a mahogany
set OF spiderlegged furniture, uphol
stored with brocadcd silk Of delicate
tlnts There are a bookcase. a writ.
ing desk Clady's sizel, a chair for II
and center table Of the same wood
On the floor is a rug that cost | don t
know what, reduced from my wife
knows what
Separated partly from the main
parior by hardwood pret2el 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 a bedroom that must always be
in order, because You can look into
It from the paylors and the private
hall
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
n a inc IL
bathroom.
Further along is the dining room.
with oak furniture, the chairs covered
with leather and very slippery. One
can sit on them at meatme if he is
hungry. In the kitchen is a small
cane seat chair.
Now, a horse can stand up all the
time Most horses stand up while
sleeping in their stalls II is said also
that a stork never sits or lies down,
but man, even though he dwell in a
fiat, wants place where he can sit
down He can lie down in his bed or
in the bathtuh, but where can he SIT
down and have any comfort?
What do do? Wen, / 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 a thing /.
is not in the fiat
SO | stun my paper in my pocket !.
and steer for the room back of a
barroom. / can sit down /
there. The barkeeper knows that f
buy a glass of ale there once In a
while in the evening before going TO /
bed and he does not expect me to buy |
anything in the morning From there I
20 to my work, which does not re-
quire me to be on hand very early.
In the evening have my dinner
sitting on a slippery leather bottomed
chair, Then 20 into the little sa 0u4 /
parlor and drop down on lhe piano .
stool can't damage that-and all.
with my wife till / feel The necessity .
If sitting down somewhere in comfort .
aud resting.
-esire, and /. not being able to sleep
IS many hours as she, go around to t
he room in the rear Of the barroom,
where there are some fairly comfort
bile wooden chairs BY spending FIVE
ents for a glass of stock ale / feel
myself privileged to sit there and
est for a while
Now, I could pay for a comfortable
hair at home. but there is no place
Or it in our stand-up hat. In the par
,rs it would mar the effect of the up
mahogany furniture I
ouldn't put il in my little bedroom
rithout removing my halfwldth bed
nd sleeping on cot.
There is room enough in my wife's
edroom for only the number Of chairs
aqured to hold the wraps and things
he laws aside on coming IN. Such a
ling as a comfortable chair in the
ming room. If there was room for II,
ould spoil the oak and leather effect.
Il have thought of the kitchen as a
Ist resort; but 10 tell the truth If
lere was room there between The gas
lnge and the washtubs { don't think
would like Il for a sitting room
when ! was a youngster. Mr..
ones concluded. - rented a wohn und
.hlaf thinner I'm "a tenement house on
be- East Side and furnished the place
,mtoltably. I'm it there We're q few