The Cairo bulletin., 1908-02-26
SHE DID NOT
TAKE
BOARDERS n
(Original.)

| come right In, said the landlady
II am sorry kept you waiting
didn't hear the bell till 1t rang sew
eral times, and l know from the wa,
1t was ringing that whoever wal
there didn't intend to go till an
swered 1t.
No, l don't take boarders--thai
Is, not exactly. The folks here are
treated like guests and | receive re-
| Enumeration In accordance. so 1t Amt
| a real boarding house. II do say
It. there isn't more congenial fam
lily hotel In this part of town---none
but people with good references need
| apply. / give them the best In the
| market.
My second floor front Is an in
valid and doesn't have much appe-
lite, but she says my table is the
best for Its kind she ever saw. I've
| just taken her hot-water bag and
| cup or tea to put en- her chest
She enjoys these little attentions ON
my part and they don't cost me any
thing. though sometimes T think
she's working me. She's real good
sort and know you'll like her, for
she Is SO entertaining. She Is always
sitting at the window and she lis
the first at the table, SO there's lit
tie that don't find out from her 1t
pays to pay little attention to that
kind
Yes, this room III sort OF dark.
but You can burn gas. | amt one OF
the kind that kicks about : gas bill.
! say to them; Burn all the gas
you want. Then put cotton In the
burners SO they is. so 1t won't
blow Off It's bad for the eyes when
1t blows.
My third floor hall back used to
forget to turn out the gas. but | had
the burner stuffed so full of cotton
that 1t didn't matter Besides. since
found his shoes hanging on the gas
fixtures one morning he doesn't like
to Kick, fof | might tell the Joke
on him at the table before the third
floor halter. No, he doesn't drink
much. but he's Just sort Of sociable
sometimes He and the third floor
halter walk out together Sundays.
don't think he has popped yet-at
least my second floor front says he
amt.
Isn't this a pretty parlor? Those
flowers on the chimney are wax-~--
l made them when | was girl.
They don't look 1t, do they? All
my family pictures are in that all
bum on the marble top. Ii you like
to look at pictures. Well some
folks do. keep them there, for 1t
helps to make conversation for the
young folks Those Photographs on
the wall are ex-boarders. I've been
In the business for most 30 years. | |
keep them as a sort of guaranty |
that I've always had the best PEG
pie. You can tell lot from peo
pies pictures. had notion to
throw out the photograph of that |
pretty girl. for she went away with
out paying her board. but her face
Is so aristocratie that / let 1t stay.
"No, ma am, don't take outside
mealers--it don't pay. This going
out to meals gives 'em too much of |
an appetite send them over TO
Miss Smiths. She sete a cheap /
table. We always have Ice cream
Sundays and rice buildings Mondays
Perhaps you'd like to look over the
Sunday menu card. It's one some
one left here long time ago and |
use IL Sundays. OF course l don't
have all that's on 1t. for | can't cook
things with foreign names. ] have
what I please, but It's SO impress
I've TO have the card. No, ma am.
they take what's brought to them,
though that smart back-haller, who
says he speaks French rattles
of something from the menu
and tell Katie to tell him we are
Just out of Il and to take him a
piece OF ny homemade pie that Il
get hot from Greaser's bakery every
That kind stays by one. No
frills for me.
Troubles with servants? Every
one has troubles with servants now
adays They are always breaking
and don't want TO take
orders from any except the male
guests. That girl I had was the
limit. She got to giggling over one
Of Mr.. Scraggy's jokes and spilled a
ot of hot soup down Miss Green's
back / wouldn't have minded that
much. but | was short Of soup that
lay and hated to have It wasted.
Goodness ma'am. why didn't you
tell me you had three children, nj
amt see why folks are 80 careless
about other folks time. No. ma'am,
haven't any room to let and I don't
AXE mealers. You better try Miss
smiths. She sent you 70 me, Well
1f all the nervel She knows I don't
want my hall carpet all run gu.
ind her old carpet doesn't matter.
Try Miss Smiths again. Tell her