Show I J REVfALS CHARACTER PECULIARITIES OF SEX APPEAR IN FLATHUNTING Men Hate to Movo When Once Settled Set-tled Women Expose Their Foibles In Making Selection Heres where you have a chance to study human nature says the super Intendent of n Chicago apartment house according to the Inter Ocean > hy I can tell as soon as I have gone over an apartment with n couple whether they live happily together If they talk over the attractive cor Hers all she tells where his reading lamp will go and he says that lo a nice corner for her tea table they arE pretty sure to bo homo folks If he digs holes in the floor with his cano while she makes a quick survey sur-vey of the rooms and ordera repairs In a lifeless fashion they are merely setting a shell of a homo in which to hang the skeleton of their onetime domestic happiness You learn to read women too in this business he continues Tho woman who talks about tho lovely flat she has and how she hates to leave It but Henry is bound to come up town who criticises everything in tho apartment apart-ment and fairly sniffs the air for trouble trou-ble will make a nagging fault finding tenant and if I had my way Id raise her rent Tho woman who wears a stylish dress In tho newest coloring and fabric fab-ric but whose shoes aro run down at the heel whose finger tops need manicuring mani-curing and whose underskirts hang ID tatters of embroidery below her skirts Is sure to bo a sloppy housekeeper and ruin the fittings In the lint u References count for something but not everything A doubtful party always comes well armed with references refer-ences but when a woman and a man look at each other doubtfully and wonder won-der whether they had best give the name of their uncle or his employer or their last landlord I take heart and know they are not up to Chicago tricks The bane of the apartment house superintendent is the Sunday rush All through April we work early and late showing apartments on Sunday On a pleasant Sunday we show perhaps 200 callers over apartments and rent possibly I pos-sibly two On a rainy Monday we have three callers and rent two apartments Rainy day flat hunters mean business I do not believe any man would move If he had his own way Ho would rather pay more rent put in a gas stove If the steam heat Is not all that it ought to be sleep on a mattress stretched on the boards laid over the bathtub if the flat is too small anything any-thing rather than move Moving has driven more than OHO well Intentioned man to drink |