Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1910 — FAMILY APARTMENT HOTEL [ARTICLE]

FAMILY APARTMENT HOTEL

ItlKht on the Jol> When .the. Boardlint House Went Into Decline. When the boarding house cited What’s that? You didn’t know the boarding house was dead? Oh, didn’t you? Well, you know, at any rate, that it had gone into a decline. Didn’t the boarding house business was not what it used to be? Didn’t she explain that the reason she had to keep askihg you for the money you owed her was that she didn’t seem able to rent the parlor suite and the second-floor front, and she didn’t know how she ever was going to pay her next month’s rent? Such a nice gentleman, too, it was Chat had had the parlor suite last! He had been there for six years and Well, anyhow, the boarding .house business is dead, in the big cities at least. It died a lingering, painful death, says "William Johnson -Harper's Weekly, but it left an heir, a vigorous, flourishing heir—the family apartment hotel. Be not deceived by the imposing array of taxicabs that stands in front

of the boarding house's successor. Be not over Impressed by the boy in buttons who opens the door for you in place of the slattern maid who used" to come drying her hands to answer the boarding-house bell. Be not beguiled by the welcoming smile of the courteous clerk who stands behind the near-mahogany desk, one artificial potted plant three paces to the left, and two" pieces” of Imitation armor overhead. Get a week behind with your hotel hill and he will be as relentlessly on trail as your last landlady was. The family apartment hotel is the boarding-house heir. It has come iqto its inheritance in Chicago, in Pittsburg, in Denver, in New York, in Seattle. in San Francisco, in all the larger cities. Hotel life is now the fashion. Everybody who can afford it. and most of those who cannot, lives in “hotels." Those who don’t dare live in them yet because of the increased expense ~ want to. !"?. When a boy wears a pair of new shoes without protest, if is an Indication that he Is going away on the cars. * ,e • •. , | , .