Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-05-31

your boarders plenty Of liberty.
Let your boarders play poker II
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.
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 dissatisfied boarder, and never
lost a 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.
Miss Murray's boarding house Is
modest two-story brick, with base
ment, wedged in between two big fac
tory buildings. 1t was once in the
midst of residence district, but its
neighboring residences have been torn
down, one by 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 neighborhood. But,
despite the dingy environment, Miss
Murray's boarding house has pre-
served its prestige.
Brisk despite her four-score years.
and with her motherly 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 If she wished one of
her boys" would swing open the iron
gates of her small front yard and
climb the front steps to supper
Feels Lonesome.
TITS a lonesome world" 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.
Such a fine lot they were! They
were like own sons to me-always
thinking Of the things l should like,
how to save me work. how to make
me happy.
Many time have lectured them.
Many 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 isn't hard to explain Miss Muir
rays influence over her boarders. She
radiates happiness and contentment
and sharp Irish wit CLEANS through
all her talk The years have made her
philosopher.
81 was born in Ireland" she con-
tinued. "But l came to this country
when 1 was a small child My parents
settled in Iowa and later came to Chi
cago. I learned to cook from my
mother. started my first boarding
house fifty years ago at 1872 North
Union street. in the heart of rail-
road district Twenty-eight years ago
l bought my present house.
81 have always done my own mar
keting and my own cooking. l think
that is chiefly responsible for my
success. Most people think men are
have had no difficulty in pleasing my
men.
'Cooney liked his steak we'll done;
Inspector Wheeler liked his so rare
that the blood follows the knife, Doc
tor Quinn liked 1t pounded before
cooking, Beal liked it with just little
melted butter for gravy, Tim Daley
liked brown gravy and plenty of it.
1t didn't take much longer to send the
meat to the table the way they want
ed 1t. and it didn't cost any more
Didn't Want Any Women.
"Why didn't you take in women as
boarders?" Miss Murray was asked.
Men and women don't mix well in
q boarding house." she replied. 'If
men don't care for the women they
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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
women.
81 wouldn't have all women under
any circumstances. Only women
boarders would make any boarding
house keepers life burden. They re-
quire too much waiting on, and are
constantly fussing and raising a rum
pus over trifies. l don't care to have
them around"
did you always keep your board
ers' clothes in order?"
"Oh, yes. What's darning a few
socks or doing little patching? 1t
didn't amount to anything, and it sort
of rested me after the cooking. The
boys didn't want me to do it. In fact,
they complained a good deal about it
I. L.