Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1881 — Of Course She Failed. [ARTICLE]

Of Course She Failed.

“So she’s all broken up, eh ? ” replied a Detroit landlady when she heard of the failure of another woman in the same business in Toledo. “Well, I knew it was only a question of time. I was in her house for a week, and I saw plainly that she had no economy about her. I tell you a landlady must think and plan.” < “Yes.” “Not only in great things but in small. There’s philosophy in running a boarding-house.” “ How ? ” “ Well, I can’t stop to tell you more than one instance. I have buckwheat pancakes every morning for breakfast for fourteen bbarders. They use butter on their cakes. I keep the butter on ice until it is as hard as a rock. The cakes are all placed on the table, not smoking hot, but mildly warm just warm enough to soften the outside of a lump of butter. In this way I make a saving of two pounds of butter per week over tne usual way of rushing on hot pancakes. It’s only one dodge out of 100, but the landlady who doesn’t play more or less of them must ultimately come to grief.”—Proc Press.