Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-06-05

they want to. but stop the game at
midnight, and don't let them play for
high stakes.
/ Be an easy boss. Make your board
ers your boys. Listen to their trou-
bles. Give them advice when they
ask 1t. Remember the boarding house
is their home as well as yours. IL
I. Miss Murray has given her best
thought to her boarding house. She
has turned hundreds of persons away
who asked to become members of her
! family. She boasts that she never has
had a dissatisfied boarder, and never
lost boarder except from death or
matrimony. &
Hers was no boarding house where
the "boarders yell when they hear the
dinner bell.'' She became known as
the best old-fashioned cook in Chi:
cago. Each of her meals was an event
in the careers Of her boarders. who
came to the table always with smiles ;.
Of anticipatory Joy. Al .$s .;s5i :. Il
Miss Murray's boarding house Is q
modest two-story brick. with base
>ment; swedged in between two big fac
ltory buildings. 1t was once in the
midst Of a residence district. but Its
neighboring residences have been torn
down, one by u one. and replaced by
factories and business houses until
Miss Murray's house has been left
stranded high and dry, the one lone
residence Of the neighb But,
despite the dingy environment, Miss
Murray's boarding, house has pre-
served It's prestige. 4
| brisk despite her four-score years.
and with her Smotherly face framed by
snow,white hair. Miss Murray sat the
other day after her retirement by one
,of her front windows and looked out
into the street as II she wished oneSof
her boys : would swing open the iron
gates II of her, small front yard and
climb the front steps to supper. IL
Feels Lonesome. g. 3
s"It's lonesome world, Z she said, !.
mo one can know just how lonesome
feel. Many: mothers lose their sons
one by one, but mine have all gone
away together Il III: II
5S""Such a fine lot they We're! They
were like own sons to me--always
thinking Of the things I should like,
how to save me work. how to make
me happy. MS Ss5' At !. NJ &
MANY a time have lectured them.l
Many a time + have given them sound
advice Not one of my boys ever went
wrong. And to think should have to
| turn them out into the streets!
1T dsn't hard to. explain Miss Muir
rays influence over her boarders. She
radiates happiness and contentment
and a sharp Irish wit CLEANS through
all her talk. The years have made her
philosopher. A: 3. ;l't.
II was born in Ireland, !" she con-
tinued. "But / came to this country
when I was small child. My parents
settled in Iowa and later came to Chi.
cago. 4 I learned to cook from my
mother. started my first boarding
house fifty years ago at 1872 North
Union street: In the heart of rails
road district. Twenty-eight years ago
I bought my present house. 81 Il AZ
81 have always doneymy: own mar
keting and my own. boxing. think
that is chiefly responsible for my
success. Most people think men are:
hard to cook for. They are not
have had no difficulty IN, pleasing my.
men. II b H
#''Cooney liked his steak we'll done:i
Inspector Wheeler liked his so rare
that the blood follows the knife. Doc
tor Quinn liked It pounded, before
cooking, Beal liked 1t with just a little
melted butter for. gravy, Tim Daley
lliked brown gravy. and plenty OF it
It didn't take much longer to send the
meat to the table thesway they want
ed 1t. and it, didn't cost any more.
Didn't Want Any Women.
lN8l'..'Why didn't you take in women ~.
:boarders 2" Miss Murray was asked.
Men and women don't mix we'll IN
q boarding house" ishe replied. III
men don't care for the women they,
don't like them around, and Il they
do care for them there are sure to be
unpleasant complications. decided
at the outset to have only men as
boarders. They are not so fussy as
i women. "
III wouldn't have all women under
any circumstances. Only women
boarders would make any boarding
house keepers life a burden. They re-
uuire too much waiting on, and are
constantly fussing and raisingta rum
pus over trifles. l don't care to have
them around. - ~ 81 "a
did you always keep your board
ers' clothes In order 4
"oh, yes. What's darning a few;
socks or doing a little patching? It
didn't amount to anything, and It sort
4 OF rested me after the cooking The
boys didn't want me to do 1t. In fact.
they complained good deal about 1t
at first, but I made them behave them
selves about that as I did about every
thing else" Nj. z, g4 y g
"You acted as their guardian, them"
"In way, yes. treated them just
as though they were my children.
They had all the liberty they wanted,
1 but I saw they didn't abuse it-and
they never tried to, Most Of my board
i ers came to me when they were just
4 starting out in life. They were away
from home and there were a great
many temptations around them. II l
saw any Of them discouraged or dis
.Eheartened or getting little too .giddy
/ Just waited until there was chance
Eand talked over things with, them.
After such talk the young fellows
would stop to think, and when they
realized that was worrying about
them they would straighten up and do
better just because Of my interest In
i them I never tried TO run my boys,
but Il wanted them to understand dis
|tinctly that anything that went wrong
with them was hard on me.
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