Show A. A t l 0 1 9 I J CHARACTER PECULIARITIES OF SEX APPEAR IN FLAT Men Hate to Move When Once Settled Set Women tIed Women Expose Their Foibles i in Making Selection Heres where you have a chance to study human nature says the superIntendent superintendent superintendent super super- of a Chicago apartment house according to the Inter Ocean Why I 1 can tell as soon as I have gone over an apartment with a couple whether they hey live happily together If they talk over the attractive corners corners corners cor cor- ners and she tells where his reading lamp Jamp will go and he says that is a anice anice nice corner for her tea table they are pretty sure to be home folks If he digs holes in the floor with his cane while she makes a quick survey survey sur sur- vey of the rooms and orders repairs i in a lifeless fashion they are merely I getting a shell of a home in which to hang the skeleton of their time one-time domestic happiness You learn to read women too in inthis inthis inthis this business he continues The woman woman who talks about the lovely flat fiat she has has' and how she hates to leave it but Henry is bound to come up town who criticises everything everything- in the apartment apartment apart apart- ment and fairly sniffs the air for trouble trouble trou trou- ble will make a nagging fault finding tenant and if jf I had my way Id I'd raise her rent The woman who wears a stylish dress in the newest coloring and fabric fabric fab fab- ric ric but whose shoes are run down at atthe atthe atthe the heel whose finger tops need manicuring manicuring manicuring mani mani- curing and whose underskirts hang in tatters of embroidery below her skirts is sure to be a sloppy housekeeper and ruin the fittings in the flat References count for tor something but not everything A doubtful party always comes well armed with references references references refer refer- but when a woman and a man look Jook at each other doubtfully and wonder wonder wonder won 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 callers over apartments and rent posSibly possibly possibly pos 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 He would rather pay more rent put in a gas stove if the steam heat is not all that it ought to be be sleep on a mattress stretched on the boards laid over the bathtub if the flat fiat is too small small any any anything thing rather than move Moving has har driven more than one well intentioned man to drink |