The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1908-12-04
A WORD FROM THs LANoLAoY.
BE Careful. Girls. She Says. We Can
Tell More than a Seeress.

No. said the landlauN. You can
tell anything from a boarders trunk
The time has been when a yellow
leather trunk with a Planters House
label pasted on il could get my front
single parlOr and no questions asked.
but not Of late years. The stung land
lady breads the hotel label some Of
the SWEETEST looking trunks that ever
went up my front stairs turned out to
be made OF paper with the brass
hinges only painted on. runs story
in the Kansas City Times.
"Landladies are only human. and
am free 10 confess that have been le-
ceiyed By these appearances in the
past. but II I had 10 size up boarder
today by this means. other things be
ing equal. would pin my faith 10 the
little battered tin trunk with a barn
door paddock and an odor OF moth
balls.
The truth Is landladies are often 10
blame for their own misfOrtunes. and
their vanity has put many good-pay-
ing boarding house on the rocks
When the new boarder comes 10 the
door in a cab with his trunk strapped
on behind and his hat box on the seat
beside the driver IL is a strong-minded
landlady who can keep the fact clearly
before her that she runs a boarding
house. and not an apartment hotel.
Il don't know why IL is that a land
lady should allow herself 10 be taken
in by such shallow articles when she
knows better all the time. but II Is
true nevertheless that she is too often
a willing victim Her experience has
taught her well enough that the
boarder who puts on the most style
who makes the biggest kick about the
odor OF cabbage in the front hall. and
who calls You down before the whole
table because YOU left the wrong laun-
dry bundle az his door. is sure TO b.
the man who is shy on bis board bill
Saturday night Yet such a boarder
is almost certain to get more cOnsid-
GRAFTON and attention than the man
who pays in advance. never kicks az
anything and always turns the gas
low when he goes out.
Short ~ marrying a man. ! believe
there IS no experience 10 be gained in
there is no evidence 10 be gained in
any business equal 10 that Of landlady-
ing him. No man can long conceal his
true character from his landlady. He
may shoot OF a lot Of fireworks 90 fool
the rest Of the world. but his landlaiy
generally knows what they are worth
I have often thought that IL girls who
are thinking OF marrying would come
70 us first we could exert a tremendous
influence for good in behalf OF society.
Better come 20 us than go 10 a for
tune teller
1T Is a grave question In my mind
whether any girl should marry a man
until she has been around when he is
shaving The tone Of voice In which
I have been tasked by boarder with
razor in his hand IL I ca.,ed
the water in the boiler hot would. I
am sure. make any girl who heard il
think twice Young men who are
known 10 them as creatures OF the
greatest good nature and afability
would bear different regulations il the
iandlady chose 10 tell what she knew
What a shock il would be 10 some
confding girl II she could see her hero
standing in his door shaking his shirt
in my face and demanding 20 know
what the laundry had done 10 the neck
band. These are some OF the things
we could tell II We We're asked We
could also show that some OF the
money spent for theater tickets and
bonbOns should have gone 20 pay for
the roast consumed the previous sun
day. Have YOU ever noticed that a
Young man al the theaser with his
girl always avoids the ere ~ his land
lady IL she happens TO be in the house,
She knows. and he knows she knows
Ny hope is that some day the world
viii realize what il owes TO the land
lady. Perhaps the time viii come
when a grateful bOarder viii erect a
monument 10 her. but in the mean
time I will be satisfied If can collect
what Is due me on Saturday night"