Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1910 — FAMILY APARTMENT HOTEL [ARTICLE]

FAMILY APARTMENT HOTEL

Rlffht on the Job When the Boarding Houne Went Into Decline. When the boarding house died 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 your landlady often tell you that the boarding house business was not w’hat it used to be? Didn’t she explain that the reason she had to keep asking you for the money you owed her was that she didn't seem able to rept 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 that had had the parlor suite last! .He had been there, for six veara and—— * Well, anyhow, the boartling hofuse. business is dead, in the big citids at least. It died a lingering, painful death, says William Johnson in 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 bill and he will be as relentlessly on your trail as your last landlady was. The family apartment hotel is the boarding-house heir. It has come into its inheritance In Chicago, in Pittsburg. in Denver, in New Y’ork, 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. Ilves in “hotels.” Those who don’t dare live in them yet because of the increased .expense want to. - When a l?oy wears a pair of new shoes without protest, it Is an indlcar tion that he is going away on the cars. - -z \ 7