Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-05-31

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your boarders plenty of liberty.
Let your boarders play poker If
they want to, but stop the game at
midnight, and don't let them play fol
high stakes.
Be an easy boss. Make your board
bles. Give them advice when they
ask it. Remember the boarding house
Is their home as we'll 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 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 a
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
| hicC MY1r We hoc lofr
| 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.
ITS a lonesome world" she said.
mo one can know just how lonesome
I feel. Many mothers lose their sons
one by one, but mine have all gone
away together.
Such 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 a time have lectured them.
Many a time l have given them sound
advice. Not one of my boys ever went
wrong. And to think l 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 a sharp Irish wit CLEANS through
all her talk The years have made her
a philosopher.
Il was born in Ireland" she con-
| tinued. But l came to this country
when was small child. My parents
settled in Iowa and later came to Chi
cago. I learned to cook from my
mother. l started my first boarding
house fifty years ago at 1872 North
| Union street, In the heart of a rail-
road district. Twenty-eight years ago
| 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
hard to cook for. They are not. I
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 it 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 it, 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 we'll in
boarding house." she replied. "If
men don't care for the women they
don't like them around, and If they
do care for them there are sure to be
unpleasant complications. I decided
at the outset to have only men as
boarders. They are not so fussy as
women.
Il 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 trifles. 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 1t sort
of rested me after the cooking. The
boys didn't want me to do it. In fact,
they complained a good deal about 1t
at first, but l made them behave them
selves about that as 1 did about every
thing else"
you acted as their guardian. then?"
"In a way, yes. | treated them just
as though they were my children.
They had all the liberty they wanted,