Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1914 — Dancing House Causes a Husband to Leave Home [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Dancing House Causes a Husband to Leave Home

CHICAGO. —A house that dances around so it never is in the same place twice in two minutes is unusual But Mrs. W. F. Scott of Oak Park complained the other day that she has to live in one. These are the results:

All the clocks in the house stop. Little sleep in two years. Cut -glass bouncing off sideboards to the floor. A clatter and clash of breaking bric-a-brac day and night. AND— It all made her so nervous her husband went away and left her. All these troubles Mrs. Scott blames on the Chicago and West Towns railroad for not keeping its tracks in repair. She appeared before

the Tillage board and demanded that the road be ordered to nail down the rattling and banging rails which she declares are responsible for the constant vibration of her residence. “It has made me so nervouß that my husband left me and I am practically a widoW,” she said. “I could not blame him for not being able to live with a woman driven frantic by such diabolical things.!, “The house rattles so that for two years I have been in constant dread that it would fall down on me. “One by one my cut glass dishes leaped off the sideboard and were smashed on the floor. “It shakes the beds so that I have not had a decent sleep in two years and sometimes I have to hold on to the mattress to keep from being tossed out on the floor." , The board promised to investigate her complaints. J J . ' * - <