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Show Failure ofa llrUnnir Ncliemr. It la probablo that 010 long the cooperative co-operative boarding liouso established in Decatur Inst spring on tho Kdward llollnmy plan will soon collapso for lack of sulllclcnt patronngo. It etnrtcd out with fifty-two mombens, tindci' tho most faroriiblo clrcunistuuccti. nml ull of Itj jiatruns woio ctitlnislustio in praiso of tho novel innnnur of living. Tho patrons pot day board at 2.40 a week, and thcro wua 11 fair profit in tho ontorprisa for tho lady mmuigcr so lonff as thoro wore fifty-two boarders. But, from ono cuuso or another, tho patrons hnvu quietly departed, until now thoro tiro but forty loft. This number Is not suftlclenttocontlnuo tho "Alliances'' longer at a profit, and it Is expected that tho co-operative plan will bo abandoned to return to tho $ i and t0 rates. Cor. St. Louis Globo-Domocrat. |