The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-07-15
WHERE JANITOR IS AN AUTOCRAT
Costs Four Gents to Enter Or Leave
apartments in Vienna After For
hidden Hours, 10 P. VI.

satisfaction of the landlord and the
sanitary inspector, pays his water and
other taxes, doesn't allow his CHM
nay to catch on fire, shuts his win
dows at night and does not otherwise
get into trouble with the police, ne
is master in his own house.
In Austria things are different. The
Viennese home is more like a jail
than a castle.
Vienna is the city of flats and the
hausbesorger, or caretaker, is chief
warder, Out of doors you may do
, nearly everything you shouldn't. Re-
velers, overcome by the iced wine and
hot air of the night places OF enter
tainment, nearly all of which are un-
darground and unventilated) may
safely hail passing policeman and
give him their pocketbook and ad-
dress and drop off into slumber with
the comforting certainty that they
will wake up the next morning in
their own beds.
Despite the awesome sword which
he carries in lieu of a truncheon, the
Viennese policeman is genial soul.
He is the good fairy of the city. The
hausbesorger, however, is an evil
spirit. He lives in gloomy cavern
at the foot of the stairs and pounces
on you every time you pass and tells
you you mustn't.
Rules That Puzzle Foreigner.
Though 1 have lived for several
years in Vienna, I have never really
mastered the house regulations, says
a writer in the st. Louis Globe-De-
mocrat. After 10 o'clock a chill air
as of the tomb envelops the house.
Later than that you may not sing,
dance or play any musical instrument.
was once at party When one of
the guests, not observing the late
ness of the hour, volunteered to sing
cora Pro Nobis." She had not gone
much beyond the first bar when she
noticed that it only wanted one min
ute to 10. The speed with which she
finished the song, put on her hat and
coat, shook hands all around and was
out in the street before the hour had
finished striking was an object lesson
from which I have not yet recovered.
At no time may one shake ones
rugs out of the front window, but be-
tween the hours of and 8 in the
morning one may beat them in the
courtyard A visitor waking up with
a start a little after 6, and wonder ,
ing whether the thunder will give
him a headache, fails to appreciate
the privilege For about an hour the !
city is as if wrapped in a sand storm;
everybody is in the courtyard hang
ing rugs. The Viennese hausfrau in :
vests all her spare cash in rugs 1t
is the proudest day of her life when !
she has so many that she is the first
to start and the last to finish. I
If one keeps dog, on wet days one
must carry him up to ones apart '
ments, so that his muddy feet do not
soil the staircase Particularly we'll {
do 1 know this last regulation, for at {
one time was the proud possessor of
a mastiff. In the first month of my /
stay it rained on seventeen days, and 7
I lost nearly fourteen pounds. My i
medical attendant said I was not {
strong enough to own so q
large a dog, so, as my rooms were on t
she fifth floor, 1 exchanged him for S
\ toy terrier.
The 10 O'clock and Other Laws
Dustbins, which are generally kept g
n the kitchen, next to the gas stove, T
have to be carried downstairs by a
he tenant and deposited on the pave i
nent for the convenience of the dust t
men. An official makes his appear v
ance few minutes ahead of the dust a
cart and clangs a huge bell at the q
loot of the stairs in warning. At i
;he sound doors fly open as if by S
4agic, and the next moment the stairs +
ire crowded with women-young and e
I'D, strong and frail-each with an c
ron dustbin strained TO her bosom. b
1t is against the law for barrel or c
sans to play in the streets, but they t
nay, with the consent of the bausbe- u
;orger, play in the courtyards, 1t is v
advisable, therefore taking in your g
residence, to make sure that your n
deas of music coincide with that OF O
he housbesorger. t
Rrt of all the regulations tending O