Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1896 — In at Ten. [ARTICLE]

In at Ten.

The Viennese take their pleasure as regularly as they do their meals; but they do not neglect business, nor keep very late hours. A correspondent of the New York Tribune explains why they come home early: One thing, perhaps, which helps to keep the young Viennese of moderate means and economical mind regular In his evening hours is the fact that ho must pay to get into his own rooms after 10 o’clock. Vienna is one vast system of apartment houses, and a house-master is In charge of each one. At 10 o’clock he locks the front door, and any one desiring to get in after that hour must pay him, and the old resident has no more right to a key than the bird of passage. The house-master is no respecter of persons. Several times we have raced home to outwit him, and once so narrow was our escape that we met him in the hall, key in hand. The chagrined expression on his face made us happy all the way up-stairs.