Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-01

Tiffany's to have IL repaired? ?"
Did | tell you there was an ele-
vator?" asked.
"You did," she replied.
Il must have got mixed on the
buildings" | said.
"Where is our apartment" she
asked.
"You are in 1t now" replied.
Il thot this was the entry or some
thing" said Luella. What IA cute
little closet"
- hat. / said lis not a closet. Tha.
is your bedroom"
Am ] supposed to sleep standing
up like a horse" she inquired.
y on may stand up any way you
say nothing whatever upon that sub
ject."
Where is, your bedroom" she
asked.
nder the kitchen table" | replied
thot | saw "A gleam of satisfaction
In Luella's eye for the first time that
mornInb.
This apartment has been lived in,"
she said suddenly. She had found an
old shoe in clothes press.
only temporarily | sad
Suddenly Shattered.
And the view" she said. rushing
to the kitchen window. 1T is Won
derful. The only view | get is that
of the gas range in the next house.
well. ~ good view of the gas
range, isn't IT," | inquired. There is
no better view of that particular gas
range i'll all New York.
There are peculiar looking par
quet floors" she announced.
"They are new sort of parquet
floor" ! replied. They make them
nov with the parquet effect almost
/ invisible"
where is the automatic dishwasher
| and drier?" she demanded.
'Well, | am sorry, Luella," | re-
piled, but that is one thing that |
will have to disappoint you about.
| The one thing
"One thing" snorted Luella. Was
there any requirement on the whole
list that you didn't foozle on?"
"Yol." | replied. Just one. 1t
doesn't cost more than 500 a month "
Il believe you" she said, for the
| first time today.
But | always hold that once a day
is a fair batting average for married
man, and | was quite well satisfied
with that
THAT requirement about 500 a
month was the one which played hob
with all the Others" | said. "If |
could have gone as high as, say,
! 500 a month, | could have filled
all the other requirements with the
| exception perhaps of the one about
the view from the kitchen window. |
don't believe there is good view
| from any kitchen window in the
world. A kitchen Is the wrong place
to look at things from. When q wom
an has been hanging around gas
range all day, no view out of any
kitchen window looks good. Even II
1t were painted by Carrot or Ruben
stein, it would still look punk. Any
body who takes the view out of
kitchen window is prejudiced against
it before she starts. The enjoyment
of a view depends entirely upon"
What Is this?" demanded Luella,
a lecture on psychology? If we are
going to live in this tabloid apart
ment we would better get our things
| Strengthened around
Cornfcd People.
Luella and | are cornfed people and
we have been used to living in houses
where one may put on his overcoat in
| the dining room without knocking
| the top off the parlor lamp.
Luella had arrived with enough fur
niture to fill the Hippodrome. We ran
out of wall space after we had hung
| nine pictures, and then we began
| hanging them one over the other. Luz
ella placed the pictures of my rela-
tives all on the bottom and camou-
flaged them with pictures of her rela-
tives. Mine were the submerged tenth.
After hanging her aunt over my
grandmother, Luella said:
II guess we will move one bed and
the ironing board into the apartment
and send the rest of the furniture to
storage. We won't need to eat. |
would hate to think of either one of
us gaining an inch ia waist measure
ment or we couldn't both live here at
the same time"
The ironing board was all right.
We figured we could stand it up on
end and it wouldn't take up much
room. II is just as easy to iron clothes
perpendicularly as horizontally when
you get used TO it. Luella said If
went and stayed at the club. she could
have her chiffonier in the flat, and
she dearly loved that chiffonier.
But we are getting along very nice
ly. Luella doesn't have to get up out
of her chair to reach anything. She
can stand in the dining room and stir
the fried potatoes on the Kitchen
range with one hand while she plays
the piano in the parlor with the other.
But we don't go out much. 1t is too
hard for both of us to get in again.
The rules are very strict We are
not allowed to throw anything out of
the window-not even the janitor.
The first of the month arrives about
every ten days, apparently, and every
thing Is all right.
Hoping you are the same. | remain,
yours, Lem.