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Show Of Course She Failed. " S o she's all I . on up, e h ? " re- plied a Detroit landlady when she heard of the failure of another woman in the same business in Toledo. " Well, I knew it was only a question of time, I was in her house for a week, and I saw plainly that she had no economy about her. I tell you, a landlady must think and plan." " Y e s . " " Not only in great things, but in small. There's philosophy in running a boarding- house." " H o w ? " " Well, I can't stop to tell you more than one instance. I have buckwheat pancakes every morning for breakfast for fourteen hearders. They use but ter on their cakes. I keep the butter on ice until it is as hard as a rock. The cakes are all placed on the table, not smoking hot, but mildy warm just warm enough to soften the outside of a lump of butter. In this way I make a saving of two pounds of Butter per week over the usual way of rushing on hot pancakes. It's only one dodge out of a hundred, but the landlady who doesn't play more or less of then must ultimately come to grief." [ Detroit Press. |