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Show TRAFj always mean mice How Window Dliplay of Neighboring Hardware Dealer Frightened Away the Prospective Tenant. "It's the mice," said the woman who had returned from an Inspects of the renting agent's choicest flats. "The place must be fairly alive with them I never could stand mice " In vain did the agent proteat that mice could not be Yred to live In such Immaculate apartments as tils. Tbo woman cut abort 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 moue-traps moue-traps lr the window? That Is an unfailing un-failing sign. I have lived In flats for twenty years, and have Harned that If the stores In a neighborhood make big display of mousetraps the flats provide the mlc for them to catch. Bo often have I had that les-aon les-aon hammered home that I study the mouse trap situation before signing a lease " "Maybe that Is t ho way those twenty-odd other women who acorned my flats on account of mice found out they were there." musjd the agent Then, before showing the flats again he persuaded the dealer to remove re-move his mousetraps to a less conspicuous con-spicuous place |