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Show Traps Always Mean Mice How Window Display of Neighboring Hardware Dealer Frightened Away the Prospective Tenant "It's the mice," said the woman who had returned from an inspection of the renting agent's c'-olcest flats "The place muBt be fairly alive with them. I never could stand mice." In vain did the agent protest that mice could not be h:red to live In such Immaculate apartments as tils The woman cut short his protestations with a sweetly incredulous smile. "Don't tell me that," she said "If the neighborhood isn't alive with them, why does the hardware dealer on the corner keep all those mousetraps mouse-traps lr the window? That Is an unfailing un-failing sign. I have lived u flats for twenty years, and have Is.arned that If the stores In a neighborhood make a big display of mousetraps the flats provide the mlc lor them to catch. So often have I bad that les fon hammered home that I study the 7? mouse-trap situation before signing a lease." "Maybe that Is the way those twen ty-odd other women who scorned my flats on account of mice found out they were there," musjd the apnL Then, before showing the flats again he persuaded the dealer to remove re-move his mouse-traps to a less conspicuous con-spicuous place. |