Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1912 — LANDLORD KNEW HER WANTS [ARTICLE]

LANDLORD KNEW HER WANTS

Bav#d Lady Tenant Much Trouble by Anticipating Her Little Talk for Needed Repairs. _"I have called to collect the rent" said the landlord. “Yes,” replied the lady of the hqusa, “come in. Now, before I give you the money this month I —•” “Just a minute, madam,” said the landlord. “I can save your time for you. I know the parlor isn’t fit for a pig to live in, the dining room wall paper is a shock to people of refinement the kitchen walls are a disgrace, and the back porch is a menace to life and limb. I’m also aware' that you won’t stay here another month unless the barber shop wall paper in the back bedroom is changed to something in a delicate qink, and I'm next to the fact that you are ashamed to have people look at such gas fixtures as I have provided. This spring I’m going to paint the front and back porches and let it go at that” “Thank you very much,” said the lady meekly. “You have saved me a lot of trouble. That Is all we really expected to have done, but I was afraid that I should have to make the same old bluff to get that much out of you.”