| Show OUR boardinghouse BOARDING HOUSE vitt the HUSBAND husban D le NOT DEAD BUT MISSING A visit to the the 11 aughty help asked aked several unto one loob and became dissatisfied with the th answers aimer V WANT it understood A that I 1 am not speaking of ani thing specific tangible t or indeed earthly when I 1 of the landlady a hush ind BB 1 as I s a v riter in the new boik world lie seldom exists in tha landlady a world yet as far as I 1 can aSLer ascertain tala he has bus seldom preceded her to any other I 1 begin to think that there is some nome lal purgatory for landladies hlaban husbands d our landlady dian didn t like jokes about grass widows and hu hid a eagerness to know about oklahoma which coupled with alth a phoud way she had of 0 B bang 1119 that pe he children dian didn t get their smartness from her puzzled the hotel clerk and threw the young man who it traveled ameled for neckwear neck ear into a state of philosophical tuie only a desperate woman aaman would run a hash house he said its a case of desel tion bigamy or common law this darned silly billy mystery making in women Is what gets em cm into trouble if a woman dont hang a libel label on herself well then some one a going a to label I 1 her ier find and ten chances to one fasten the giong tag on the hotel bleik stuck his bis thumb in his bis vest aim holes and an unlighted cigar in its his mouth waldi I 1 was the attitude he invariably assumed when ahen discussing a woman ionian a menu or a politician there aie women he said eliod sooner wear a guask than a tiara the hotel clerks pi enunciation of tiara I 1 was so unique as to be quite outside of ord ordinal inai spelling it N was a soon after this conversation that I 1 ghent vent to the intelligence nee office with tho the landlady we take turns in this pastime partly out of sympathy for the landlady who struggled for mani years single handed against those ag giess gies lve sive ranks of foreigners foi eigners called help 11 and partly at the suggestion of the hotel clerk who ho said that the boarders boa ders iders might it as s well it have a v e a hand in ili picking out the ladles ladies who were going to wear ear theli collars and neckties and read their postal cards for them Be resides begines gides as we have on an average five cooky bookel a month engaging them is an arduous for one the landlady a gentleman filand had become such an adept that he sa a he can tell a flaherty bioni a mcginnis directly he puts his foot inside the intelligence e office and we have the distinctive traits of the and MeGinnis es down nery ery fine at our boac ding house A mcginnis bleaka more china than a ria herty but then a flaherity Fla heity ty goes off on oil monthly bats I 1 suggested to the landlady chilt we should try an 0 llara we haven t had an for months the landlady said that was so and picked one out you can always tell the Ol charas laras by theli flat chests and red hair and a rather stylish way ay they have of wearing their mistiest mi shirt waists they are a proud high spirited race the boharas OH aras though their soups are apt to be greasy this one said shed just jus t as lief go out four nights in the week as saturday night and the whole of sunday and while she wash windows or dust what ahat she called 4 bi bilecky icky bracky she u would do the potato peeling heiselt and consent to in a room without double windows this was a conces concession gion for an 0 hira then she her side of the catechism 1 ate aie ou cranky about the gal g a having visitors flie file landlady said no but she drew the line at aunts staying for three th reo weeks or gentlemen cousins every night how many are lz ez in dambly asked the 0 ohara hara besides the boarders theres myself and two children said the landlady Is yer husband beadi dea dj asked 0 iiara iles hes not one of the family now answered tho the landlady land lad evasively the face of the 0 iiara hardened I 1 a salmon colored block of granite oile be sald eald to harden barden shuro she said not be t anio in 0 lavin in a fabere the bit h band va massin an ie a cant give 11 i more satis fictor account uv it tilt ahm that not tire hire out to no more cialli widders lt it inders a gal 9 w ko fco we had to put up with a flabia gan they are not so exacting guess have to get a leg legal lega a tion said the landlady musingly iu AJ N we e left the office its gettin so tor ter elble hard to get a girl who A ho 21 over overlook loo uy bleach |
