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Why She Left The Flat

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
November
Year
1892
Copyright
Public Domain
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x uey were coming clown town toether na Broadwaycar, and the woman in the phish jacket was pouring her tale of woe into the sympathetic left ear of her neighbor in the sealskin coat "Yes, íe moved." she said. "We've gxven up flat lite and are going tolive in f a ÍL ,r No' was't the traditional causes that drove me out either. ld growii used to the dumb' waiter, had established fairly friendlv relations with the janitor, and my serv"ant agreed beautifully with the other servant, who washed on the same day she did. ' "We had lived in the flat almostsix months. No one had called, and 1 bemg used to the ways of smaller cities' had decided that the people meant to snnb me. I didn't mind it. Harry and 1 were very comfortable. I had mother with me part of the time, and- well everything was lovely. "One evening I was in the bathroom, which opened off the court. I had a severe cold in my lungs, and I confided the fact to Harry, who sat in onr 'den ' fnrther dowu the hall. I suppose that I must have raised my voice just a 1-i-ttle when Harry suggested that 1 use goosé grease and I replied that I hadn't any in the house. "Well, my dear, in just ten minutes the bell rang and my maid came to me with a saucer and a message from the old lady who lived ia the flat above me. The saucer contained goose grease and the message was to the effect that the dear old lady had heard me expresa a wish. etc, and begged I would accept it. "I was pleased. It was so sweet and nice of her that tears came to my eyes as 1 took the saucer and retreated into the bathroom again. The door had hardly closed when- another ring, another maid, another saucer, this time from the young married woman on the top fïoor. "How ungrateful I had been! How kind and truly good were all these people! My meditations were interrupted by another ring, another maid, another supply of the goose grease. The maiden lady who kept house for her brother had sent it up, and would I please rub it in well and go to bed at once. Then the Irish servant girl across the hall brought some in and gave it to the queen of my kitchen, and I had to take in and ter two more consigninents while they were exchanging the courtesies of the evening. "All were represen ted bef ore the evening was over, exoept that the offerings varied. The widower on the first floor said his Maria had died of a neglected cold on the lungs, and he sent me a bottle of the Consumptive Sufferer's Relief, which she had found very sootbing in her last hours. A sweet old grandmother on the second floor sent me a mustard piaster all ready for application, and the widow who boards with her contributed a box of four-grain quinine pills and a medical journal. "Martha and I spent the entire evening reoeiving these neighborly offerings, while Harry sat still and chuckled. By 11 o'clock we had ampie stock for a small apotlveary sliop. "From that mgbt everybody in the block regarded me as a being snatched from death by his or her remedy. 1 gave ■ them all a common interest to discuss. Harry was waylaid in the hall, Martha was intercepted on her way to and from the clothesline, I myself was subjected to various medical questions by the widower, the grandmother and the young married woman on the top floor. "I was growing tbin and palé. I simply had to have a change of scène - and people. So we moved. No, I'm not exaggerating. I haven't even done the subject justice." But the woman iu the sealskin coat thouglit she

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News