The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-02-07
HER RICHNESS, YE LANDLADY
Topekan and Wife Made Great
Fuss Over Visit of One Who Is
In Power.
al dreadful catastrophe happened ID

A dreadful catastrophe happened to
the young Topeka married man
recently. It occurred when Her I'M
perial Hiehness, the Landiady, dropped
! in for a visit. No, you're wrong; she
did not come to raise the rent-not
this time.
Y. NJ. NJ. was sitting in the front
room, buried in a magazine, when a
knock sounded at the door. He
grumbled at being thus disturbed in
the midst of a good story, and flung
open the door without ceremony.
When he perceived the identity of his
visitor, however. his entire demeanor
changed Instantly he became all
smiles and graciousness and welcome,
aecosting Her Highness with hearth
ness that covered a heart full OF awe
and fear. There was time when
tenants could treat their landlords Cor
ladies' as equals. sometimes even as
interiors, but. alas. that time has gone
the way of the scent loaf of bread and
carfare.
In the oIden DAYS. II the tenant
found anything that did not just suit
him, he was quick and loud in his
complaints. threatening even TO move
out unless the disturbing element vas
removed Immediately. He would stand
right up to the landlord and talk to
him as man to man, oftimes in a
supercilious, clustering tone of voice.
Now, if he finds any repairs that have
to be made. he usually makes them
himself, unless the cost is too great.
In that event, he tinidly suggests the
matter to the monarch from whom he
rents and wonders if he would mind
to have it fixed?' Sometimes it is;
more often it isn't.
But back TO Y. T NJ NJ and his
dilemma Her Highness, the Landlady
swept in, her tenant bowling and
scraping before her. With great show
OF hospitality and so-gIad-you
drepped-in, Y. T. NJ NJ battled with
the situation until he was timely rein
forced by his wife and friend she
had visiting her.
-Dearie,' (wife speaking to hus-
band. not to iandIady) why don't you
turn on all the Hghts2 It's SO dark in
here"
More Light on Situation.
You see. the wife had just cleaned
UP the house for her guest and wanted
Her Highness to see what a neat
housekeeper her subject was and she
! did not think that the reading lamp
was doing justice to the situation
Y T. NJ NJ dispatched himself in
the most approved husbandly manner
TO get something to stand on to reach
, the lights, which he had turned off
| there instead of from the switch so the
reading lamp would alone be burning
What was there he could stand on ?
When he had turned off the lights. he
had used one of the parior chairs but
thai would never do before Her High
ness (they rent the house furnishedD
Finally his eye lighted on a stool and
he hurried with this into the parfor.
He mounted. A terrible cracking
sound came up to him and he FASTENED
to get down. but too late. the damage
had been done Badly frustrated Y
T. NJ NJ. picked up the injured stool
before Her Highness could rail at her
subjects awkwardness and hurried
out Of the room In the kitchen he
found an old chair Just the thing
But as he picked II up. he noted that
where they was a cane bottom when
, they had taken the house there was
| now only hole. The baby had seen
I to that Here Invention, one of Ne
cessity's brood. came to his aid and
( he covered the hole with a piece of
wrapping paper, being careful. after
! he reached the parlor. to place the
chair with its back to Her Majesty
and not to put his foot thru the hole
as he turned on the lights. Then he
grabbed UP the chair and beat a hasty
retreat from the room
And the LandIady removed her
austere presence without raising the
rent, In addition to that she in
formed 7 7. n NJ that she was going
meant that they were reasonably safe
/ consequently. Of having to move until
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