The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-01-14
LIFE IN A STAND.
UP FLAT
The Plant OF a Homeless Man

Ever live IN a.-gtand.up nat2" in.
CURED Mr.. Jones, not over cheerfuIly.
No? Well ! have lived in one. In
fact live in one now.
" is a sx.roomand.bathw ith.all.
tHe'moden-Improyement affair" he
went on and costs SIN month. The
paTior is decorated as beautifully as
an Avenue a wedding cake.
IT IS furnished with 4 mahogany
set o. spiderlegged furniture. uphol.
stored with brocadcd silk OF delicate
tints, There are a bookcase. writ.
ing desk lladys sizet, chair for 1t
ana a 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 pretzel work IL
a little second parlor. In II are a
piano, a mahogany chair. suitable for
anything but sitting in. and large
| box couch This couch is entirely oc.
cnpied by fancy sofa pillows. Then
comes bedroom that must always be
In order, because YOU can look into
II from the parlors aud the private
hall
Beyond this bedroom Is another
bedroom. which belongs Ia my wife
and is usually kept closed. Life is too
short to tell what things occupy the
chairs. Between the bedrooms IL 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 h
hungry In the kitchen il a small
cane seat chair.
Now, a horse can stand up all the /
time. Most horses stand up while I
sleeping in their stalls. II is said also /
that a stork never sits or lies down. I
but a man, even though ne dwell In I
fiat, wants a place where he can sit
down. lie can lie down in his bed or
in the bathub, 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 dat
SO | stuff my paper in my pocket
and steer for the room back of a
harroom, ! can SIT down
there, The barkeeper knows that
buy glass of ale there once IN a
while in the evening before going to
bed and he does not expect me 20 buy
anything in the morning From there
/ 60 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 go into the little eeoa4
paror and drop down on Tie piano
stool can't damage that-and talk
with my wife till / feel The necessity
Of sitting down somewhere in comfort
and resting,
"By that time my wife is ready 10
resire and |, not being able to sleep
he room in the rear Of the barroom
where there are some fairly comfort
able wooden chairs BY spending five
,ents for a glass Of stock ale feel
myself privileged to sit there aud
est for while
Now. could pay for a comfortable
hair at home. but there is no place 1
or 1t in our stand-up fiat In the par /
OTIS it would mar the effect of the up
olstered mahogany furniture.
ouldn't put it in my little bedroom
Without removing my half-width bed
nd sleeping on Get.
There is room enough in my wife's
edroom for only the number Of chairs
equired to hold the wraps and things 4
he laws aside on coming I'm. Such a
hing as a comfortable chair in the
lining room. if there was room for II,
'ould spoil the oak and leather effect.
Il have thought Of the kitchen as
ist resort. but 10 tell the truth II
here was room there between the gas
1npe and the washtubs / don't think I
would Ike Il for a sitting room
when was q youugster" Mr.
ones concluded. u rented a wahu und =
.hlaf thinner I'm a tenement house on =
he East Side and furnished the place
lmfortably In IT there We're a few
hairs in which persons could sit But
BAT was before he days Of modern
ats with all the up-todate improve. =
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