Show the woes of a mother in the city no joke for those who are blessed with children one womans humorous experience V experiences hunting for rooms with children Is no joke said the woman oman with the tired looking face why you d actu ally think they were a disgrace in I 1 of a blessing the time I 1 ve had this day would try the patience of a saint I 1 ive ve been looked over consult ed about in insultingly audible tones told that they d take me on trial until really I 1 in halt half dead and savage enough to bite I 1 know sympathetically broke in a jolly little woman in the corner I 1 ive ve been through it all but I 1 fin ally got a place owing to the fact per haps that the landlord had a sense of humr oh do tell us about it said an other woman I 1 too have a child and I 1 too have tried to move but I 1 ve been compelled to stay where I 1 am on account of my young hopeful well it was this way ay began the good natured little woman I 1 it d been hunting tor for days tired and cross oh dear me yes and to cap it all baby was cross too I 1 always took took him with me it saved the trouble ot of answering questions I 1 had turned from door to door and was utterly discouraged sometimes it was noth 1 ing more than a look and a snappish no we have nothing to let here in spite ot of the fact that the apartment apartments to rent stared me in the face baby was so villainously cross that I 1 finally took him over to my sisters flat and left him there with her and started off to see isee a flat she had rec om orn mended it was a pretty flat suitable in every particular and the arrangements were being made for me to have the place when suddenly my prospective landlord turned to me and said by the way have you any children 7 I 1 groaned there it mas again the same old question I 1 could not tell him a lie and knew that just as soon as I 1 told him the truth it would be all up with the flat yes I 1 answered yes I 1 ve got one but it if the good lord will let me live until I 1 get home take him out in the back yard and kill hill him well the man nearly had a fit he laughed so hard and then I 1 nearly had one for he made an exception in our case and he and the young hopeful are great friends indeed he laughingly maintains that he saved the child childs s life new york times |