Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1915 — CAP and BELLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAP and BELLS

VENTILATION WAS TOO MUCH

No Wonder Front Parlor Continued to Sme 11 “Close"—Summer Boarder— Kept Window Open.

"Good morning!” said Mrs. Northey, as she greeted her callers at the front door. "Come right into the parlor—although I’m sure I’m most ashamed to ask anyone in after what my niece, Annie, from the city’s been sayin’. What did she say? Why, she says to me a week ago, 'Auntie, this house smells terrible close this bad, foggy weather. You'd better do somethin’ about it!’ “So I got right to work, and yanked most every bit of furniture except the piano out on the porch, and then I swep', and I cleaned, and I beat, and when there wasn’t a mite of dust or dirt on anythin’, I shut things up again tight’s I could. But this moroin’ Annie comes in and says the very same thing: ‘Auntie, how awful close it does smell in here!’ And there hadn’t been a thing as far’s I could see would git it close for a week. “I was clean discouraged, I tell you. But I've made up my mind now what the trouble us,’’ continued Mrs. Northey, as she sunk her voice to a whisper and looked back cautiously over her shoulder. “We've got a summer boarder up in our front chamber. I've found out she keeps her window open a crack all the time, and I think the fog and the damp smells has Just got Into the house by her room, and that’s why it smells close!” —Youth’s Companion.