Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — ALL OVER IN A WEEK [ARTICLE]

ALL OVER IN A WEEK

WILLIAMS' STAY IN BOARDINOi HOUBE SHORT AND B#BET. Gave Every Evidence »f Being Experienced Boarder and Hte Smart Sayings and Mannerisms Were Talk of House. 5 -V .4 : ' • When young Mr. Williams came to our boarding house it was plain to every one that this was not his first experience at boarding. In fact, his actions seemed to indi-! cate that he,was old and experienced! in the life of boarding, and that hoi had come to us from some others boarding house, or possibly from a succession of them. It was shown in the aplomb with which he assured Mrs. Hicks that he; invariably paid his board on pay day,; and that his pay day came on Satur-i day, ignoring her somewhat distorted i statement that she insisted on pay in advance in every case. It was further shown in the way; he skilfully flipped the covering off! the bed in his hall bedrootn and ap- : praised the condition of the sheets; with judicial eye, his opinion, good; or bad, being represented by a noncommltal grunt. He was a normal young man, was Mr. Williams. He had just the normal amount of baggage. His face was; so nearly normal that people he knew would forget to speak to him. He-, was of medium height and'weight, and so far as we could see had but one suit of clothes, and that an ordinary dusty, brownish gray. His appetite,- too, proved normal. He had a typical boarding house appetite that pushed aside those things it* did not want and insisted on a double supply of those it did. It was a discriminating appetite that refused to accept things the nature of which did not appear on the surface. Immediately after supper Mr. Williams sat on the front steps and regarded fellow boarders with speculative eye. Being a normal boarder, with what might be called an abnormal nerve, he easily decided that Miss Amy Crothsweight, who was a stenographer in the roller mills office, was the only one of us worthy of his attention. And in fifteen minutes, he and Miss Amy went for a walk, heading, of course, toward the drug store soda fountain. Miss Amy, herself upon her dignity. When they came back Mr. Williams had some chewing gum, which he passed about. Next day he was wearing a tie we recognized as belonging to Ifr. Willoughby. Mr. Willoughby, when pressed, admitted that he and - Mr. Williams had become somewhat chummy. Toward the end df the week Mrs. Hicks was taking an unusual interest in Mr, Williams. She quoted him to the girls, and would tell the boys bow smart he was. He was the most ingratiating person, was young Mr. Williams, and, as everybody got to liking him, Ids sayings and mannerisms were the talk of the house. On Saturday be did net appear at the table. Mrs. Micks said he was called out of town. He didn’t come back either. His trunk was hauled by Jim, the porter, to the junk room, and we did; the best we could to forget him. We have often wondered if be went : abroad, or was killed by a motorcycle, but have never learned. It’s always that way, for people come and go like guests at our-board-ing house.—Dallas News.