| Show J IS hh Is an nn old gIrl j M vJ bachelor She Is a lone wo woman 10 o oi i man unattached She has hus hasi J i no married sister ilster to hitch bitch on In to anti 1 be tolerated by anti and site she would not 1 thus titus hitch If I she hind had a II married sitter sister t Miss Usa Toggles lives hives In furnished l t rooms She he has changed lodgings 1 three times In the past four tour months month V i Here lere Is III why I I Her first landlady was Mrs Irs Boggles Doggies widow Miss room was wn spot spotlessly il leanly lessly clean the bed linen was billowy 1 white and there were no frightful crackling straw pillows for tor sham to toT tol toj T j l bo be hurled with anathema to tho the far tar farthest fart t corner of the room every even night The food toad was as also olao good the butter not notI j I skimped The landlady wore vore always 1 funereal black and anu swallowed vast 1 quantities of cheap tea ten Sho She had gray cray grayhair t hair pulled back skin akin tight IM above i h her i r ears enra and her nose was 1181 chronically 1 reddened from constant weeping and andt J t 1 grieving ov over ovir r her departed husband r Boggle had been dead 25 years but butA A 1 Mrs Boggles Boggle had not burled buried him yet el f She carried canted him him about In her mind mindI I x and palavered him all nil over oer her board 4 era ere for tor breakfast luncheon and din dinn dinner dint t t n net ner r lie He had been a good husband I and arid perhaps because good husbands 1 are scarce his widow refused to re release reo reI I lease him to eternal rest reat At any an 1 rate the boarders board en were fairly haunt haunted t ed with him Mrs Boggles Boggle grievance t appeared to be that she ahe was as now lIon III Mi 1 il IH er like quails Qualls When the tho foreign white devil has hall passed on beyond possibility of looking backward they slip out of oC their hiding places and resume work The flatiron of at the tho outside barbarian Is 15 unknown In Korea After Ater the tho women have finished their washing they the lay laythe laythe the tue wet wot clothes In a neat pile and begin the tho process which with them takes the place of at Ironing It was roi enough that the hue substance was wall thrashed and pounded hounded loun led out of ot the garments In the th washing without soap snaIl They must nt at least what Is left let of ot them be further n f i H HII N Zi IH 1 ll tH HH HH Ii IH IH HH lH H H III Il f WOMANS ODD LITTLE LIITLE WAYS t BY TABITHA i obliged to lift her little finger where whereas as ns In Boggles tine time site she had not to so o to todo todo todo do Lifting her little linger seemed B emed to tobe tobe tobe be associated In lit Widow Haggles mind with exertion so tremendous as aR to In Involve valve volve a 11 crane anti and derrick operation While Mr Ir Boggles was olive alive I 1 was uns waited on like a B baby I never neer had ha to lift my little hittie finger was her plaint In n a 1 quarter of ot a II century nuy nay rea rca reasonable woman would have either married somebody t else ell or learned to tobe tobe tobe be thankful that haggles Boggles lua happy In heaven Yet Mrs tirs Boggles HaggleR still sat sut up nights to wall wail his Iii hl loss The Tue at nt atmosphere atmosphere of ot the tile boarding house grew heavy heny with the defunct Boggles Boggle no Miss Toggles I gently gentl tore herself away and amid went vent to the lodging house kept ty by L Coggles Cocles spinster No more Inore widows for tor mel mcl Miss Toggles Miss Coggles had In her rooms the thA awful straw sham pillows and she skimped the lie butter but Miss Toggles did complain Anything to get getaway away awn awa from tram the corpse of at Joggles Boggles I she the said laid to herself She Rho started In with Miss Coggles Monday morning Monday Monda evening Miss II A called on her In her room loom and entertained her with the life lite story Lucretia had had hind a fortune of at 1001 1000 She put It Into a n boarding house and lost It Site She learned the business on that and lad had managed to make a living In Inthe Inthe inthe the 15 years since sluice but the loss Iou wits was ever present with her It was wal like Mrs Irs Boggles Doggies husband over arID Miss Coggles hind had the hallucination of at many If I she had had a husband her troubles would n nevar nent v r have ha VI been lIeen beenA A woman needs need a Q man to lean upon and md I nover never had a II man to do da for tor forme forme me So Mica MUs Coggles till t Miss ogles I began belan to see eo In dreams lost loat thousand dollar bills and amid specter of husbands that might have havo been t She Site endured It twice n a day da for tor two months then went to Mrs Irs t No had been or might have hav been husband distressed the hue soul foul of at Mrs MU Her grievance was vas a living husband very sery much olive alive She Site had hlll to support him ore oft the pro proceeds proceeds I of ot the house houe and he lie ate te twice ns as much as any paying boarder she had He got cot drunk he treated her cruelly cruell ho lie never did a lick of ot work he abused her first husbands husband children i He lie Ie was wal Jealous as all Nero N ro If It I r was wall just only on rid of that man sighed Mrs Mr All 11 this every ever new hoarder boarder heard r i before betor he or she had been In the hou houe 24 21 hours and the old ones onea had It for tor every even meal dally dali and Sunday Miss V Coggles mourned because she had not nota I Ia a husband Mrs Irs HoUles because ih site had hind X IS Miss Toggles Is advertising for tor a k 5 c lodging house houM kept by a landlady without a n grievance x I |
