The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-04-11
JANITOR'S WIFE
READS HER TENANTS
Knows Some Request Is Due When
She Is Treated
Well.

''In our business began the ianitor' 5
wife, eve have To be like diplomatic
relation, as Oswald my husband, says.
If we aren't diplomatic. there would be
more trouble in these fats than in a
police station
This morning, as | passed up the
hall, / was called into the fiat on the
second floor by that little blond WON
an who dresses in pink most of the
time Now, she's lady I never much
cared for on account of ber acting so
dignified and not seeming to get ac-
quainted very quick. SO when she gave
me the signal to come in ! didn't know
what was coming.
Was | surprised when she asked me
to sit down to breakfast with her so
we could have a little chat? At first
thought maybe she and her husband
wanted 10 get out of the lease. Tenants
are very nice to the janitor when they
want 10 sub-lease their fiat and turn
it over to the first people that come
along. They've got TO stand in with Us
such times or, If we don't like the looks
of the new ones. we can put in rap
which spoils the deal.
Another time that tenants are nice
to Ms il when they have house party
in view or a reception and they want to
dance and keep the phonograph going
six hours overtime For week before
he big event they make a fuss about
me and Oswald. All of a sudden we are
treated like close relations of theirs
Then they take one of us aside and
spring the proposition. They figure il
out that how can we refuse and be So
cruel 10 people which have treated us
SO swell?
eff we weren't wise birds we would
never get next to the thing. but they
cant fool jsnitor or his wife who
have baen IL years in the profession
and who don't think any more about
tenants than any other kind Of plain
class of people. II the tenant isn't
friend Of ours, shc must live
up TO the rules and regulations.
What the woman surprised me with
was a family argument she wanted me
10 join in on. You know. her husband
and herself got a discussion on hand ne
to which Of them is right on the ques- /
tion Of financial matters
"She claims that as a girl she was al I
ways used 10 big money and that since /
she got married a month ago she is try. !
ing TO get by on a percentage Of her 4
husbands salary She saws she never 4
thought Of money before now. She said .
that she sometimes blames her young /
husband for not making more money !
and then again She blames herself for
not being more of a business woman in 4
thitking about IL while she had the 1
time But money matters was only 4
part Of the reason why they we're un-
happy. So she said that a. 7 was the /
Dnly happy looking woman in the
building she thought might tell her
bow ! kept happy
I'm thinking it over. Mrs McAiiv
Tomorrow morning lll call on the
bride again and explain how a janitor
md his wife have lived and kept in love
Tor IL years on a sliding salary. which
n the beginning was enough TO scare
- 30 death when We looked il in the
lace
Well. said Mrs McAiix. IL you've
rot the secrcf of happiness youd bet
.er =et up a shop and retail IL You'll
ind there's money IN IT,
That's q good idea. said the jani-
ore wife I guess there would b. more
money IN teaching people how 20 ~
lappy than in running manicure
bop. II vou can d. it
Yuu've said &C.. said the other
Wcuan. - Chicago Ness