Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1882 — Characteristics of a Fashionable Neighborhood. [ARTICLE]

Characteristics of a Fashionable Neighborhood.

A gentleman who was inspecting a house in a fashionable neighborhood, complained that the location was too dull and lonesorpe, that there was no life. “It may seem a little dull now,” said the owner of the house, “but wait till the first of the month, when the grocers and the butchers are trying to collect their bills, and you’ll think there is a fair or circus out in this part of the town. I know it’s a little dull during the day. That’s the way it is in all fashionable localities, but just wait till about twelve o’clock at night when these high-toned roosters come home drunk and pound on their front doors and whoop. You won’t think it a bit dull and lonesome.”