Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1896 — Amenities of City Life. [ARTICLE]

Amenities of City Life.

Mrs. Anderson wanted to hang out her washing ait the same time that the Bradleys were lieatlng carpets. She had as much right to hang out the washing as the Bradleys had to beat carpets. The Bradleys conceded her that right. They told her to go ahead and hang her washing on the Mne and they would go ahead and beat the carpets on the next line. The Andersons occupied the first flat and the Bradleys the second. In the dispute as to the clothesline the Bradleys won. Mrs. Anderson dared not hang her clothes on the line while the Bradleys were beating up clouds of dust. But she had her revenge. That evening she took little Florence to the front window, and the two sat there and watched Mrs. Bradley learning to ride the wheel in the street. Mrs. Bradley Is a large woman, and she was timid in proportion to her bulk. Mrs. Anderson sat at the front window and smiled scornfully. Little Florence would occasionally laugh aloud at Mrs. Bradley’s efforts, and then her mother would say, so that the neighbors could hear: “Hush, Florence, don’t laugh at her.” ; z Maybe you think that there can be peace in the flat building after that! ■ ■"