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Show j A Symphony in A Flat. j With our worthy President making vehement protest against race suicide and receiving the indorsement in-dorsement of many organizations composed largely cf spinsters, and with owners of flats and apartment houses doing all they can to discourage infant in-i in-i .tlustry, the posjtion of the young husband is indeed trying, if he be a dweller in cities. Live he must, somewhere, and that somewhere in a city is pretty I tertain to be a flat, but dogs, peddler and babies j are barred from most flats. There was a case in point in Chicago recently. ) Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gurney were, ejected from their ' Hat because they were thoughtless enough to be-. be-. c ome the parents of twins. The vocal exercises of the infants so disturbed the peace of another tenant . that he caused the-ejectment of, the parents, there ' being a clause in his lease that no "young children" lie allowed to occupy with their parents rooms ad- jacent to his. - , t ' When the Gurneys rented the flat the twins were not in the present tense. They may not even have been in the future so far as we know, but that is im- material. They were not, but presently they were. "The flat was their birthplace. It would seem that in such circumstances they had gained a residence and that ejecting them and their parents would be 2iu the nature of ex post facto proceedings. But they were ejected just the same. With the President and the flat owners having such widely divergent points of view it is difficult to - hazard a guess as to the outcome. Marrying and ; giving in marriage continues in Chicago and else- where, and, as Kipling points out, there are the "al- most inevitable consequences." It used to be hardship hard-ship enough, we thought, for the young parents to Z be refused the right to pay for the privilege of living ;in three diminutive rooms because they had previously pre-viously accumulated a child or two, but now when lit has reached the stage that children subsequent " to the beginning of tenancy are deemed grounds to terminate that tenancy it is indeed a serious matter. We suggest that the matter be referred to a l oard cf arbitration, of three members, one to be selected by President Koosevelt, one by the Amalgamated Amal-gamated Association of Flat Owners and the two to select the third, with the understanding that David Ii. TTill" and Susan B. Anthony be barred. |